Will This Bellhousing Work?

1975 CJ 5 w/232 and T14 tranny/Dana 20. Looking at a Ford T-18 tranny and am trying to piece together the conversion a little at a time. Going to try to avoid the whole Novak package if I can. Can I use this bellhousing between the 2? Texas bolt pattern-not sure what else I need to consider.

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Yes, that will work with a Ford transmission. The Ford T-18 case has the "butterfly" pattern, where the bolts are in this bell housing.

Suggest you read the Novak pages about this. The conversion is for the back end of the Ford transmission, converting from the Ford T-18 case to the "Texas" pattern of your Dana 20 transfer case. You will need to take the Ford T-18 completely apart and assemble it with the Novak main shaft. Your T-14 output gear has the wrong spline count for the Novak kit. You will need a 6-spline output gear. Novak has a table that lists these parts.

 

You can choose a 6 or 10 spline output shaft from Novak so a new output gear isn't needed.