[GB SISSON]

Once again Pete thanks for helping out with the large print version of the barn. Thought I'd post some pics of progress on the adapter plate. When I picked up this S 10 T5, the seller offered me the bellhousing, clutch assembly etc so I took it all. Good thing because the greasy old GM bellhousing gave me a good idea. What you see here is a rough out of the pilot hole to accept the bearing retainer on the chev version of the T5. This hole was sawn inside of the scribed line representing the S 10's bearing retainer. I them mounted this 1/2" plate onto the back side of the chev bellhousing. Using a follower router bit which is 1/2" dia with a 1/2" bearing on the bottom, I easily replicated the pilot hole needed to press over the machined outer flange of the T5's retainer. This is a very snug fit, in fact I had to put a small chamfer on the back side before I could wiggle and twist it home.
Now keep in mind this plate will be two pieces of 1/2" aluminum stacked upon each other. The next step after those pictured was to create a 2 3/4" hole in the same location on the second plate. This is to allow the gm bearing retainer to poke through, leaving a solid base to tap and bolt our FH Ford bearing retainer to. Since these photos were taken, I have through bolted the two plates with 8 bolts and a generous slather of JB Weld between them. They are now one plate with a nice recess in the back. I will leave it here although I got pretty far along yesterday but no photos yet. Once again I cannot stress enough how important it is to this method that out FH V8 bearing retainer is a snug fit over the top of the one of the S 10. The Ford style T5 and the GM style T5 have different OD on the throw out bearing sleeve area, but the difference is made up by the spiral grooves at the base. They both work very well at indexing the T5 to the hogshead.