M22 HQ gearbox

[granic]

Hi guys ,Orsome site have just purchased gearbox has v8 belhousing ithink it is a m22 because it has no markings on input shaft and first gear ratio of 3.7
Dr terry said that input shaft and release brg sleeve is longer on v8 than 6
is there any way of bolting this to v8 if it has shorter input shaft which i think it has,  what is the length of both types so i can find out which box i have ,cheers

[ACE]

Hi Granic,
The input shaft length on a 6 cylinder aussie 4 speed is 6 and a quarter inches approx from one of the release bearing sleeve bolts to the tip of the input shaft.
Putting a 6 cylinder gearbox on a V8 bellhousing won't work.
ACE  8)

[nicko]

plenty of 6cyl bellhousings around any from a Ht HG 3 speed all syncro will do and then you can easily change the input shaft from a 8 to a 6 as they are swappable on most aussie 4 speed boxes except the rare XU1 close ratio box and i think the one tunner box both these from memory have a different  input shaft so cant be swapped..
memory is a bit faded so dont take that as gospel.