Well, lots of activity yesterday but almost all on the truck. We did get a chance to put one rocker on and she looks good, so now a matter of rinse repeat..
In the end mounting the trans back up was a bear. The new pins caused the trans to not want to mount, and although they were in the holes, we had to put bolts in the block with washers to "suck it in" gradually and slowly. Eventually it pulled in, but were panicking because it was harder than it should have been. We put in the driveshaft, wiggled it, pulled it in a little more, didnt use a lot of pressure, didnt want to crack the aluminum housing, but couldnt get it to go without it..
In the end it was dinner time and on the bottom is a vid of us getting loopy looking for our last few bolts...
FYI - Our method for clocking a bellhousing, hope it helps someone.. . I know there's a couple methods to this but we went with the non-math simple way.
- Mount the bellhousing to the block, tq our bolts, mount the dial indicator so it couched the circle of the center hole in the bellhosing.
- Turned the engine clockwise, watched the gauge and look for the first moment we went from positive to negative. Clockwise on the reading and the second the dial started to go negative (counter clockwise) thats your highspot and we marked that spot with a big line.
- Zeroed the indicator, go around, watch for the highest and most negative number.
- That number, the highest, you divide by 2. So, .036 was us, divide by 2 is 18.
- Pick offset pins. We were 18 off, picked .021 and that brought us to .03 and within the .05 spec
- The new pins, you need to pop out the old ones, put the new ones in but they MUST be orientated to the way you made the mark for your high spot. SO for us, we had a 7 - oclock orientation, and our new pins went in with that orientation.
- Once your new pins are in, put the bellhousing back on, tq it, re-check the measurements. If its off, ours was still by a touch, grab and move the pins a "scoch" and recheck till your happy..