Originally Posted by TJP
Originally Posted by JohnRR
Originally Posted by TJP
A kwik update:
1. The crank flange had a high spot ring around the outside preventing the FW from sitting flat on the entire flange surface. Wasn'nt really noticeable until one looked at flange pattern the back of the FW. Rust or something similar (orange & black spotting) was evident on the flange. A kwik pass with a flat aluminum block confirmed the presence of the ring.
2. The pilot bushing was not installed straight as the upper lip was proturding
3. The Z bar mount is definitely tweaked
4. new flywheel mounted showed 0 variation to the block measured across the face
5. Bellhousing run out checked at .022" eek
Waiting for offset dowels to get the bellhousing in spec wink beer


Hopefully the RobbMc dowels and directly from Him , Summit sells the lakewood branded RobbMc type now and they are almost 150 a pair vs. 39 a pair ...

I certainly wish i had know about those before pulling the trigger on the summit / lakewood ones frown Oh well next time up
Didn't get much accomplished today other removing the dowels. The welding a bolt trick worked really well especially with the motor still in the car. So thanks for the suggestion up Still learning at 69 YO beer
Attaching a few pic's of the back of the crank and FW where one can see it was only seating on the outer edge along with non shouldered bolts eek


I thought everyone that's a longtime member knew about them , the good thing I guess is it's on the customers dime. I have all 3 available offsets in my stash , would have really hurt at the summit price ...

The first time I bought them all they were only 28 a set ...

RobbMC dowels

running up my post count some more .