(93 loyale sedan 5spd d/r swap)

I finally have some free time to work on the roo, I have yet to make a mount for my carrier bearing.

I have had an idea to cut to pieces of steel & have one going from one end of the mount to the flat surface, than drill through the floor board.

However I don't think this will suffice for my liking.

So, USMB what have you created for your carrier mount bearings for your d/r swap?

Pics would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

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The mounts should be there unless you're converting from 2wd as well... I just put a d/r in a 3at loyale yesterday, carrier bearing mounts are in the same spot... unless you don't have the mt drive shaft, there is a huge difference in length between at and mt driveshafts.

Got any 4wd cars at wrecker nearby you can cut them out of the floor from? They're only spot welded on.

The flat part of the floor isn't really designed to handle the load. I have seen them bent before when the tailshaft hit on something.

I made brackets based on what I saw on my 4wd wagon when I converted a fwd to 4wd. They don't attach to the flat part of the floor. They attach to the sides of the tunnel. I can try to remember to get pics tonight.

I'm not proud of these, but this is what I used in my Loyale for years:

 

The carrier bearing began to fail, which I suspect was because those mounts were not placed correctly (totally eyeballed) and put some extra load on the bearing. There was an EA81 in the junkyard at the time, so I grabbed the one piece driveshaft from that, and had a shop lengthen it to the EA82 specs, and used that for years.