T-56 install

[Gun Doc]

Tensile strength is the "maximun stretching force that a material can withstand before breaking." So, a grade "8" bolt can withstand about 30,000 more pounds before breaking, or stated another way, about 125% of the torque that a grade "5" bolt can handle before breaking.

When you torque a fastener, you are stretching the fastener and applying a load to the threaded area.

Other considerations should be paid to bolt diameter and thread pitch. Also, torque values are for dry fasteners unless the specific manual calls for lubrication...Lubrication will affect the applied torque.

Gun Doc

[Rwillia4]

A T-56 shifter distance from the bellhouseing is the same distance as a T-5

The other thing I learned is the threaded bolt holes on a RAM flywheel are standard AND metric. For their pressure plate the holes line up with the standard holes, not the same bolts that you would get if you asked for a Ford pressure plate to flywheel bolts which are metric. Yeah, sucked learning that one.

[Bailey]

You may not get much info on a T56 in a BDR, as far as I know, mine is the only street car equipped with one. If you are using the aft shifter location, the center of the shifter cutout is 19 1/4" forward of the aft vertical wall of the cockpit.
Installing it, I would leave the shifter off, tape up the opening to keep things clean, start small on the opening, and open it up just enough to install the shifter while the tranny is in place. Also make sure you driveshaft is short enough to be able to be removed with the tranny in place (the T56 has a longer housing than a T5) The first time I removed my tranny, I had to cut the driveshaft in half, no fun at all.
Let me know if you need pictures of anything.
Good Luck,
Richard Bailey
RTBBailey@MSN.COM