cajos1968
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Who actually changed the dowel pins for the bellhouse to get proper alignment? How did you remove the one next to the oil filter?
Who actually changed the dowel pins for the bellhouse to get proper alignment? How did you remove the one next to the oil filter?
"Mrvette" Keisler requested / recommended it and for a 20 dollar part I'm not taking any risk.
I been following this thread, and I wonder why all the effort over these locating pins/dowels...never did have a issue one way or another with them....just slip the tranny/bellhousing in place and bolt it down.....
why the issue?? I would think the factory has that located pretty good when they spotted the tranny and engine....NO???
so why???
or is it to cover over for aftermarket crap messups?? something I would wonder how in hell to ever check for in a home garage with typical tools....
I would imagine it all has to be within a very few mills to start with....:bonkers:
I been following this thread, and I wonder why all the effort over these locating pins/dowels...never did have a issue one way or another with them....just slip the tranny/bellhousing in place and bolt it down.....
why the issue?? I would think the factory has that located pretty good when they spotted the tranny and engine....NO???
so why???
or is it to cover over for aftermarket crap messups?? something I would wonder how in hell to ever check for in a home garage with typical tools....
I would imagine it all has to be within a very few mills to start with....:bonkers:
Gene, I wondered this for many years too. GM made billions of bellhousings - they all seemed to line up ok, why can't lakewood etc. I now understand that Muncies etc had one input shaft bearing so the shaft slopped around a bit. Quite a bit actually. Worked out to be self alighning. Now the Richmonds, TKO's etc have 2 front bearings for "strength", so they have to be dead on alighned. Appears to be a case of fixing something that ain't broke. The Muncie's, B/W's, Saginaws all had no input bearing longevity problems...
one other thing that i did when doing this and i think it is the right thing to make sure it is as close as it can be is to take a flat file and dress the bellhousing mating surface so there is nothing to make it rock or sit cockeyed. i did that and when i installed it on the motor it was spot on.