Volvo overdrive compatibility?

[Greeks]

I believe some of the old Volvos have J-type Laycock o/d - does anyone know if it's possible to fit them to a 2000 gearbox?

It's not something I need to do, but there's plenty of old bricks knocking around here.

[Slimboyfat]

They aren't drilled for the mounting rubber, so need drilling and tapping. The flanges are different, but you can swap for a Triumph one, or swap your your prop flange. The speedo driven is a different ratio. Apart from that they fit!

[Greeks]

Great i'll have a dozen!

[Slimboyfat]

But that would clear me out of nearly a 1/5 of my Volvo J type old core stock!

[toomanyprojects]

Would you Adam and Eve it,

I appear to own 2 J-type overdrives and never even knew it.

Here's the one I didn't know I had, even though the car is 16 years younger it looks remarkably similar.

[G.in_Lux]

Would an adapted spacer plate be necessary?

Not that I have a 2000 or anything; I just know it's the case for the Vitesse...

[JohnD]

toomanyprojects wrote:

Now that is scary.
One trolley jack.
Not one, not two but FIVE loose planks of wood.
And NO axle stands.

Don't worry about your projects, TMP,  how many lives do you have?

JOhn

[Greeks]

C'mon John there's two tyres there as well!

Dave ... surely the point of having all that stock is to sell it?

[Slimboyfat]

Greeks wrote:

Dave ... surely the point of having all that stock is to sell it?

Because we have been converting them into Triumph ones!
A few years ago one of the old boys that used to bring us old core (twin wheel transit pick up full every couple of months, those were the days!) mentioned that he had just cleared out some new overdrives from GKN Minworth, and was I interested. He had bought along one of them in it's packing crate for me to have a gander at. It turns out to be a Volvo J type. I ask him how many he has, oh he say's the 7 1/2 tonner back at the yard is stacked high with them! Ho didn't know how many that equated to because he had bought them for their aluminium scrap value only. At the time we were sitting on enough overdrive units (I thought) to see us through and scrappy was only prepared to sell the lot in one drop. I mused it over for a couple of days and then did a deal with Earnie Garbut at OD spares to take some of the pile if I took them off the scrappy (it wasn't the cost of the things that worried me, it was the volume). I then rang the scrappy back to get them here, but in the meantime he had needed the lorry for something else so the overdrives had gone into the pot still in their wooden packing crates! Those were the days.