hi you have probably checked this already,, but have you done ANYTHING to the rear gearbox mount crossmember?? i assume the selectors do not mate up??just a thought good luck.

Exactly the same transmission? If it is a standard transmission, does the clutch "horseshoe" line up with the ball joint on the engine and the fulcrum on the frame? If so it would appear the engine is set properly.

You didn't respond to Deyomatic's question?.. This may be silly question?  Are you sure the Bell housing & trans are together properly?  If not, is it possible that your replacement engine was from an automatic car & your car is a standard. I believe that requires machining the end of the crank for a suitable pilot bushing setup ..       


Paul

cranks are all the same

I’m going to suggest looking at the transmission mount more closely.  If it’s the old mount, then try flipping it around 180° as it may have an offset in the mounting holes.  If the transmission mount is new, then compare it to the old one if you still have it.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Thanks for all the replies and suggestion.  To answer your questions...

The transmission is a 5 speed Mustang, but it was on the old engine too.
Where the shift stub comes through the hole in the floor appears to be 1" forward also.
I am using the old bell housing.
The engine/transmission/bell housing are fully mated and torqued to spec.
The clutch linkage looks like the engine is forward in location. (not properly aligned)

if the mounts are the same then the motor is in the same place it was before.it cant be in a different place.the only way is the mounts are different.its impossiable to be forward 1 inch.the only way that could happen is the old mounts are 6 cyl

In your assortment of parts do you have a flat plate that you don't recognize?  When we put a late 5 speed in my son's early Mustang, we had to make an adapter plate for above the transmission mount so that the mount would bolt up with the engine sitting on the original front mounts.  If I remember correctly, it was a piece of 1/4" steel plate wide enough to accommodate the bolt holes in the transmission and long enough to bolt to the mount to match the holes in the mount.  A flat plate with 4 holes in it.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

It all boils down to the engine mounts from what you have said (everything is forward from the z bar mounts to the rear emgine mount and the hole for the shifter)- so the mounts cannot be the same.  Check further on this.  Either the mounts are backwards, are the wrong mounts or badly manufactured. .  Do a closer examination of them - they may look the same but are they really the same?. Measuring them may tell the tale.

Do you still have the old mounts?


54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!  It was the motor mounts.  Getting one of the new ones out and comparing it to the old one, there is a 3/4" shift in the attaching studs/bolt holes.  Very unhappy with the people who supplied the reproduction.

Thanks guys....