C-6 in place of a Cruise-A-Matic on 60-64 Galaxie

Working on a 62 Galaxie and have a question regarding fitment of a C-6 in place of the Cruise-A-Matic. Will it fit without too much trouble? I have both but cracked the bellhousing on the Cruise-A-Matic removing it from the donor car. Should I just try to find another bell housing or can the C-6 be adapted without much headache???

Installing the C6 in a 62 can be done with a few modifications. You will have to use the C6 flexplate, block spacer plate and a later (65 & up) starter. The crossmember must also be relocated and then there is the linkage. It's a fairly common swap but by no means a straight bolt in. By the way Ford refered to all 3 speed automatics of this era as Cruise-o matics (FMX-C6-C4) the 2 speeds were given the name
Ford-o-matic
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: UTRY on 6/25/05 11:16am ]</font>

Thanks for the info. Sounds like at this point I just need to find the Cruise bell housing which I broke today [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_cry.gif[/img]

Go for c-6 unless you are going for matching #s etc.I have 62 with C_6 old cruiseamatic heavy cast iron not as good as C-6.
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Did you do the swap yourself? I have a Good C-6 here at the shop but noticed things like tailshaft lenth and trans mount location. What am I in for?