How To Install a Five-Speed in Vintage Mustangs

13. Here's the complete bellhousing and adapter plate ready to bereinstalled on the engine to receive the T5 transmission. It's a simplesetup, as the CPC adapter plate allows you to run a T5 trans and retainthe original bellhousing, thus the factory clutch linkage. From here,reassembly is just a matter of putting the engine and transmission backtogether as you would if the Top Loader were being reinstalled.

14. The resurfaced flywheel is reinstalled using the same bolts,which are then torqued to 70 ft-lb with a torque wrench.

15. The clutch disc is clearly marked "engine side" to ensureit's correctly installed on the flywheel.

16. With the supplied clutch-alignment tool, the clutch disc isset into place on the flywheel.

17. The pressure plate is bolted to the flywheel, while thealignment tool holds the clutch disc in position. The pressure-platebolts are torqued to 30-35 ft-lb.

Top loader four-speed vs. T5 five-speed gear ratios.

18. With the clutch and flywheel assembled, the bellhousing isreinstalled on the engine.

19. Using the same bolts, the bellhousing is secured on theengine by thoroughly tightening them.

20. Now the T5 is installed by mating it up to the CPC adapterplate. It helps to have two people to support the weight of the trans asit's being installed. Try to get the face of the transmission case asfar as possible onto the adapter plate before installing the bolts. Thegoal is to get the transmission's input shaft as far into place aspossible, seating the end of the shaft in the flywheel's pilot bushingbefore final tightening of the transmission mounting bolts.