I'm thinking of converting to a hydraulic clutch to free up some room on the drivers side for exhaust routing. I've also got dreams of someday dropping in a 5 speed trans. Are there any other benefits and what does it take to make it happen? I'm running a NP435.

I wonder if a BB setup from a zf5 could be easily adapted to work?

Yeah, if at all possible, go with an external slave. No one wants to pull the tranny to swap out the slave.

This is off of a Bronco Facebook post, reported here without verification. If true this would be an easy way for older standard transmissions that have detachable bell housings to upgrade to a hydraulic setup. Try it out Justin and let us know if it works.

You can source an E4TA small block bell housing from an 84 to 86 F series or Bronco they are set up for an external hydraulic slave cylinder and has the standard ford transmission bolt pattern.

Thats cool!

Justin, you need to try that.

Justin the external clutch from a big block (460) should work. You will have to figure out (build) a bracket but shouldn't be too tough.

Or go the bellhousing route ;)

It's nice to get rid of that crap on the frame.

Fabbing a bracket might work. If the trans/bellhousing is coming off, a ZF5 is going on.

Bring it on by! I'd love to get a look.