Willys Overland Knight Registry

Willys 6-90A Clutch / Bellhousing

Willys 6-90A Clutch / Bellhousing.
This was new for 6-90A which has the shift lever protruding from transmission rather than the bellhousing as on Willys 98B, 98D, 97, 6-90.
Dimension A is 4 1/8", Dimension B is 6 1/4".
Dimension C Lower bolt centerline to input shaft centerline is 2 1/2". The hole for the transmission bearing retainer is 4 1/2" diameter.


Willys 6-90A Clutch / Bellhousing

Dimension D is 8 1/2".

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Clutch throwout bearing is marked Nice, PA No 5094-1 but it appears as if this is no longer available.

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Transmission is clearly marked T83-1 and then it has a date tag cast below showing 1932 as the year.

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

View of the seaparate Freewheel unit FW 01A. It has its own oil fill and drain plugs so don't forget these !

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

6 bolt Transmission shaft flange.

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Note that the transmission bearing retainer is held on with 4 bolts. Later T86, T90 retainers were 3 bolts.

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Input shaft is 1 1/8" diameter with 10 splines and protrudes 8 1/2 from transmission case with 2 1/2" of usable spline length.

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Input shaft gear has 16 teeth. Next gear has 22 teeth.
1st/Rev gear has 29 teeth and slides on 6 splined shaft.
Brass sychronizer rings have 30 teeth.
I was unable to count the teeth on the countershaft gears.


Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Top cover bolts have 4 5/8" spacing for width, 7" spacing overall, 3 3/4" front bolts to center bolts.
Transmission case length is 8 5/16", then the separate freewheel unit adds 5 3/4" to universal joint flange.


Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission

Warner Gear T83-1 Transmission


Warner Gear Inc. introduced the T81-1 Transmission with "Constant load" type of synchronization in 1931.
This T83-1 was a natural progression and was later followed by the popular T-86 and T-90 examples.
Exactly how much is interchangeable (or can be modified to retrofit) between T83-1, T86, T90 is unknown.
Although Willys used a chassis mounted handbrake for domestic use, Right Hand Drive examples such as in Australia would have had the handbrake mounted on the right side of the transmission case.

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