A new trany in and Old CJ5

i'd stay out of ditches if it wasent so fun!!!
oh and you aint easy on trails or clutches!!!R)

 

I have going back and forth on what to do on the floor pan!
I looked at boots and what others had done and in a lot of cases I found guys running with nothing or having socks stuffed around the trany to keep the dirt out.
I did not want to end up that way. So here is what I made in about 3 hours with a pair of tinsnips and a bench.
To form the corners I used angle Iron and clamped the sheet join then used a block of wood and formed the sharper corners.
I am no sheet metal worker but its better than nothing!
I will take it down and have it Rhino coated later like my interior is!
This cost about $15.00

So this is the hole! you can see the trany is further ahead and the transfer is farther back. Plus the trany sticks up higher!

 

Here is the Stock piece of cover. I already notched it to attempt to get it to fit! you can see the problems.



Here is my $15.00 floor pan. the stock boots will be used and for now I am painting it black!

 

That sheet metal work looks fine to me. You might consider welding in a narrow doubler ring around each opening. Once it's painted or coated, it should blend in well. I'm anxious to see how your boots fit.

Thanks for keeping this thread updated. You're giving me much motiviation to get my T18 off the garage floor and put where it belongs!

 

Its kind of a bad pic. You can see the boots sitting in the locations. I have them on and have driven it to a friends house today. I am pretty happy with it and I will coat it when I rip the jeep apart for a paint job maybe this summer!

 

I have to say that I am so glad I made the choice I did. The more I drive it the More I like it. The pattern is not huge to shift. I don't get the gear noise others with T18's have. I have a first gear (5:1) that is actually usable yet I find it is plenty low to crawl. I can shift to first while rolling and power down at stop signs and on hills without using the brakes at all.
It really does not feel like I am driving a big truck.

 

To revive an old thread! I found some info that may be helpful to other folks on the T-18 transmission mount. I found there are actually two different bolt patterns on the stock T-18 and T-19 adapters for the mount! Hence the earlier confusion. I'll try and get some measurements and pics to post up. I believe the wider bolt pattern that actually takes the narrower mount came from Stock CJ T-18's (just tore one down from a '74 and that's what it had). Maybe other applications as well. As near as I can determine, the Waggy and Jeep pu and most scouts used the wider mount with the narrower bolt pattern.