Quote from: Towd56 on May 13, 2020, 09:13:49 PM

Curious what type clutch you are running and what would be your total travel of clutch fork? The reason I ask is because I am in a similar situation and my clutch (a twin disk McLeod) specifically calls for no more than .500 of total travel of t/o bearing against pressure plate.

I'm prepared to dodge the rotten tomatoes and get boo'd off stage for my choice. I went with some old skool junk laying around. A gently used Ram 3 finger and a NOS sintered disc from way back, and a Ford Racing flywheel. Not sure what the total travel is, I haven't measured that yet.

Very nice - thanks. Are the top loader tricks something you’d share??

Thanks for the feed back guys. it's very much appreciated.

I did manage to get the driver side pin out. vise grips alone didn't work. It was too hard to drill..... when I center punched it for the drill bit, it went about 1/8".    Not what i wanted to happen. I didn't get enough heat into it to kill the hardness of it or heat in the block to allow it to pull out either.

In the end, I drilled a hole to tap and shoot it out with grease. Since I measured wrong and wasn't past the end of it, I had to angle the drill to get to past the end. This time, a barely made it. I used a tapered punch to to drive in behind it which drove the pin out some. Tapping on the shaft of the punch got it out some more. After that, it was a combination of vise grips and used the punch as a lever to final remove it.

This bell housing and flywheel were on the last motor and it was within tolerance when I checked for the 005". This is a different block and crank.

I haven't been checking the torque on the bell to block bolts. I've been using a battery impact, it's should get to the 35-45 listed in the instructions for the bell. I will have to check that.

Marking the high side of the offset pins, got it.

Towd56, I feel for ya. I have a few hours invested and don't want to imagine what its been like for you over the last couple of months dealing with it. I have checked for run out around the circumference of the flywheel. I did check the face at the edge where the clutch disc rides. It was .007 there. The Blue allows up to .010.

All of this was done with the motor beside the car hanging from the engine hoist. Since I am impatient, the motor was set in down in the car yesterday. I will have to finish up from underneath. I am proceeding with the headers and front engine dress. I have a note to self to mark the balancer so I know where to stop when I get back to taking readings again. That way I only crawl once for each reading!!!

One last thing I forgot to tell you - it looks like you are using a QT bell. If you are also using their spacer plate - my plate did not have one of the holes drilled in it to clearance the oil galley plugs in the rear of the block. Make sure your plate is not hanging up on those plugs if your block has them.

I’ve been fighting this same task for nearly two months. I am finally within a few thousands everywhere. Here is what I learned:

1. Start with checking the actual flywheel for run out. If flywheel has a ton of run out it will give you crazy numbers when checking the concentric. Don’t just assume that because you’ve had it machined that it is OK.
2. Next check that when bolted to the block - the bellhousing is actually parallel to the block. This too will throw of your concentric.
3. Last - check the concentric run out.

I will also say that when removing 1 bolt from flywheel may work - I found minor differences when I also removed an opposing bolt from opposite side.

Two months later - I had to have the flange side of my new flywheel dressed, bought offset dowels, and a little machining on a bellhousing that was nearly 800 bucks. Very frustrating to say the least.

In time I can see myself as a customer for an adapter kit.
I’m a stick guy at heart but in time I can see an advantage to losing the left pedal.

Jay - any idea how far out your kit is?

Looks good Brent. I’m thinking of trading it for some hand sanitizer 

I have done it several times on east coast. 3PL is the term or site I have used prior to delivering package for shipping

Like a big sewing machine. Nice!!

Looks great-Where did you buy the wheels from?