Posted by Tom in Indiana [216.249.74.130] on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 17:09:28 :
I need a favor. I've got the 350 PTO sitting on my bench beside the NP435, ready to be bolted up and set off to the side until either I, or whoever ends up with the entire "kit" decided to put it to use. I asked a few days ago in a post, but never got an answer:
Does the PTO output winch shaft come out the TOP port, or the BOTTOM? The guy who built the PTO for me originally had it set up for a rear shaft, so last night I switched it around at work. For those of you who may ever run across that scenario, all you have to do is remove the output shaft shaft (hehe) ONLY, pull off the outer bearing with a puller, remove the snap ring, flip the gear over on the shaft, then reinstall the snap ring and press the bearing back on. Easily done in ten minutes. I was going to go ahead and bolt the PTO to the transmission a few minutes ago, but I want to make absolute sure that the shaft exits the top, if it is supposed to. I've never seen a picture of one installed with a view of the output side, and they CAN be built with the shaft exiting the bottom. It would take me five minutes to switch everything when it's on the table. It'd be a MAJOR pain in the toucas doing it once it was in the truck and the trans full of gear oil.
I don't even really need a picture- if someone could just crawl under, bend over, throw a mirror on the ground under their truck and let me know, it'd save me a heck of a lot of worry/time/trouble. I still haven't decided on whether or not the whole swap is going to happen, but I'm still only ONE part away from having everything for the swap- the NP435 lever adapter bracket. If any of you guys can snap a picture of THAT for me, or get some rough dimensions/template of it, that'd also spare me a ton of trial and error in making one, as I haven't been able to find one anywhere after two years of searching and begging.
The temptation of firing up the 360 might be the final deciding factor on the ordeal, though... from all of the number crunching and basing it off the last 360 I built (identical except for no .030" overbore and this has a different, more radical cam profile), it should be somewhere in the 350-375 horsepower range. The last one was right at 400hp at the flywheel, in an '84 D100 shortbed with an A833 and 3.54 gears. That thing was just plain NASTY. Granted, I'm not stupid enough to try to break things on the '50; I just wanted to make sure I could easily climb the giant hill to my house(trailer), compared to barely making it up it with the 230. Methinks overkill is always good enough. :)
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