Velevet drive and Vdrive what have I got?.

[verno]

I just aquired an old Chrysler inboard belhousing with velevet drive and a halibrand vdrive. Both came out of the same boat. The velvet drive is still attached to the chryslr 318 poly engine belhousing, the Numbers on the chrysler bellhousing tag are 318CWL10-334.

The velvet drive I believe is a borg warner, (at least by carefully comparing to pictures it apears to look identical to a BW 71C). Number on the tag is 4636, and the casting numbers are WG Div 71B-1. is that a Borg warner 71-B? Is it a vaible unit that parts and service info are available for?

The second is the Halibrand Vdrive, on which I found a stamped number 528047 AC . And on the top cover plate I found cast number halibrand B-260. No other tag found on it.

I am in the dark on what this stuff is, but i do know that it did in fact run and drive until the engine cover was left off in the rain resulting in ultimate rust siezure of the engine. (had a fresh rebuilt engine in there too). Anyway both drive units were always covered. Both drives were full of clean fluid, and upon draining found no metallics or water.

Trying to see if all or any of it is worth bringing back to life, part it, or just scrap it.

 

[system-f]

Re: Velevet drive and Vdrive what have I got?.

Pics please? I cannot answer any of your questions, but others might be able to with some pictures. I would also like to see what these drivetrain pieces look like.

 

[picklenjim]

Re: Velvet drive and Drive what have I got?.

Re: Velvet drive and Drive what have I got?.

Sounds like what you do have is a Borg-Warner Velvet Drive. I don't know what you mean by bring it back to life. Do you have the boat for it? I definitely would not scrap it. There is someone out there that they would be worth something to. Try to sell them on ebay. There you would get the largest area coverage. People look on there for those kind of parts all the time.

If you want to find information on them just do a web search.I know there are a lot of Velvet Drive sites and there are also some on the Halibrand v-drive B-260.

 

[verno]

Re: Velevet drive and Vdrive what have I got?.

Added some pics. What I meant by bringing back to life? I was thinking about evaluating whether to tangle with yet another project. I normally do almost entirely outboard stuff with old merc a specialty. But if it's possible I am game for just about anything.

The stuff is just too clean and corrosion free to simply ignore.

I tried the Borg warner velvet drive sites. It surely looks like a velvet drive 1.0 ratio. but the number on this unit does not come up.

The Halibrand vee drive I have had zero luck locating online.

The more I look at it the more I suspect this might not play well with my outboard stuff. But surely good stuff for hobbyists already into these old chrysler drive systems.

 

[picklenjim]

Re: Velevet drive and Vdrive what have I got?.

Those things look really old to me. You never know there may be someone out there doing an old restoration that's been looking high and low for something like that or may just need them for parts. I don't think I would try to make anything out of them myself but I wouldn't scrap them either.

I did see a Halibrand B-260 on Graigs List for $200.