T5 advice

[Bored&Stroked]

Thanks Tim! If I have to do some "custom work" to the current mainshaft - not a problem. I think I'll take it apart when I get back to Ohio and "explore" the problem. Hopefully some others have some guidance (at least on parts required) to handle the issue - or maybe a custom solution is the best way.

[Tim Ayers]

Originally Posted by Bored&Stroked

Thanks Tim! If I have to do some "custom work" to the current mainshaft - not a problem. I think I'll take it apart when I get back to Ohio and "explore" the problem. Hopefully some others have some guidance (at least on parts required) to handle the issue - or maybe a custom solution is the best way.

Let's us know what you found out. I also jumped into the T5 game by finally locating an affordable Jeep T5. Now the fun begins in making it all work.

[V8COOPMAN]

Originally Posted by Bored&Stroked

Thanks Tim! If I have to do some "custom work" to the current mainshaft - not a problem. I think I'll take it apart when I get back to Ohio and "explore" the problem. Hopefully some others have some guidance (at least on parts required) to handle the issue - or maybe a custom solution is the best way.

Dale & Tim ...... No promises here guys, and I most certainly DO NOT have the definitive answer that you both require. BUT ..... I have already sent e-mails this morning to some people that should be in the 'KNOW' about this subject, and I'm dying to get back to both of you (and whomever else is interested) with some good, valid information. I'm workin' on it, guys.

I read both of your replies to the two different "T5" articles that came-up on the forum yesterday evening. Although I have had quite a few 'Barners contact me over the past few years about T5-stuff in general as well as pertaining to the torque tube aspect of all this, you two are the first "hardened", dyed-in-the-wool F'Barn folks that have seemed to show any REAL-WORLD interest in any possibility of marrying a T5 with a torque tube. I have been amazed at the seeming LACK of interest in the subject over the past few years. The ONLY serious car guy I know of that has married a Jeep T5 with a torque tube is Cory Taulbert that did it in his '32 5W coupe some time back and had amassed several thousands of miles last I heard. Note via the picture below that Cory's coupe is powered by one of those orange, UN-flatheads, but there's no difference in the end result whether using Brand X or a Henry flathead. It's all glued to the front end of a 'Henry' TORQUE TUBE.

DIRECTLY BELOW is a link to Cory's T5/Torque Tube Build in his '32!


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