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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 05:01 AM
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Does anyone know what the difference between a M21 installed in a small block car and one in a big block car? Was looking in the 1968 AIM and the L79 M21 has a different part number than a L36(and I'm assuming L68 and L71)M21.
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No difference that I've ever heard. No reference to any differences in my rebuild manual either (ie. no breakdown between bigblock and smallblock), unless they had a diff countergear teeth count.

Countergear teeth count was either ; 17,19, 22, or 27.
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Different speedo drive gear...

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Different speedo drive gear...
That does seem to be the difference between the 2 M21 parts numbers. Turns out that its not really a BB or SB thing other than the fact that all M21 equippped SB cars share the same speedo drive gear thus the L79 designation under one M21 part #.
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There was a production change somewhere back in there. They went from a 7/8 diameter countershaft to 1"
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1965 And earlier= 7/8" cluster pin...
1966 and later = 1" cluster pin...

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