{"id":44477,"date":"2020-01-23T16:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/?p=44477"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:01:28","slug":"tri-5-5-6-speed-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/tri-5-5-6-speed-conversions\/","title":{"rendered":"TRI-5: 5 &#038; 6 speed Conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Modern Driveline<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43622 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1955-Green-White-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"157\" \/><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong> 1955-1957 Chevy Tri 5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Modern Driveline&#8217;s<\/span><\/em> approach to the Tri 5 using a TKO five speed or T56 six speed transmission conversion from a 3 or 4 speed manual transmission or automatic transmission is quite simple.When converting from a manual transmission, the original Chevy bell housing can be reused along with the 168 tooth 11\u201d clutch pattern or 153 tooth 10.5\u201d clutch pattern flywheel as well as the mechanical clutch linkage. Or we can convert you to Hydraulic Clutch release as an upgrade.Cars equipped with automatic transmissions, will need a new bell housing, flywheel and clutch release.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><b style=\"color: #808080;\">Clutch selection is the next critical step. If your manual transmission is equipped with a 10 spline input shaft, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Modern Driveline<\/em><\/span> will select one of our 26 spline, <\/b><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><b>in-house<\/b><\/span><b style=\"color: #808080;\">, handmade clutches matched to your horsepower and use up to 600 Horsepower.Beyond 600 Horsepower or strip use, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Modern Driveline<\/em><\/span> will recommend and provide either a Tilton twin disk clutch and Chromoly flywheel or the Mcleod twin disk clutch. If you have a M22 transmission with the \u201cFine 26 Spline\u201d input shaft, you may be able to reuse your clutch.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43625 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1956-Orange-white-1-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"147\" \/><\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Modern Driveline<\/span><\/em> will \u201cflip\u201d the shifter the TKO and locate the shifter to the forward socket in the rear shifter housing placing the shifter about 16.30\u201d from the back of the bell housing. With the shifter in the correct location a \u201cHurst\u201d Candy Cane shifter lever will be provided that will work with bench seats and give you that classic look.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Once the transmission is mounted to the back of the bell housing, you will use the crossmember provide that will locate the transmission to the correct driveline angle.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>A slip yoke is included with the conversion package, or Modern Driveline can provide you with a steel, aluminum or carbon fiber drive shaft as needed.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Modern Driveline has figured out all the details for Tri 5 conversions for small block, big block and LS engines.<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/shoebox-tko\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>SUPER CHEVY ARTICLE: TKO SHOEBOX<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Now let\u2019s \u201cShift Forward\u201d and \u201cMake it Modern\u201d and call today for a detailed quote.<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0 <em>208-453-9800<\/em><\/strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pic-3-1-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43619 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1957-210-RED-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Driveline 1955-1957 Chevy Tri 5 Modern Driveline&#8217;s approach to the Tri 5 using a TKO five speed or T56 six speed transmission conversion from a 3 or 4 speed manual transmission or automatic transmission is quite simple.When converting from a manual transmission, the original Chevy bell housing can be reused along with the 168 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":43622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,67],"tags":[169,253,254,255,256,257,258],"class_list":["post-44477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-articles","category-special-interest","tag-210-5-speed","tag-5-speed-tri-5","tag-55-chevy-5-speed","tag-56-chevy-5-speed","tag-57-chevy-5-speed","tag-bel-air-5-speed","tag-tremec-tri-five"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}