Posted By: 73cuda340
Lakewood bellhousings - 06/21/12 02:33 AM
How has everyone found the fit and alignment of the lakewood bellhousings for big blocks to be? I want to get one for my hemi but have heard many stories of them being out of alignment.
Posted By: astjp2
Re: Lakewood bellhousings - 06/21/12 03:04 AM
The bore needs to be .008 TIR and the face should be within .006. I got my stock bellhousing to .002 in the bore TIR and .004 on the face. Get Rob MC's alignment dowels, dont mess with stock ones. The stock ones are a real pain to get out. Tim
Posted By: oldiron
Re: Lakewood bellhousings - 06/21/12 03:23 AM
also, if you are going w/a new bell housing, it will be quicktime. Since lakewood bought quicktime I don't believe they sell the lakewood can anymore.
Posted By: CoreyWilson
Re: Lakewood bellhousings - 06/21/12 03:32 AM
Not sure on the Mopar Quicktime bell, but fwiw, my clutch guy recommended I get a Lakewood asap while there were still some left with the NP435 truck trans pattern so I wouldn't have to drill the pattern in a car bellhousing. He said on the Ford trucks he's worked with it takes some work to get a dual disk clutch to work properly and a triple disk is almost impossible as the Quicktime is smaller.
Posted By: radar
Re: Lakewood bellhousings - 06/21/12 07:32 PM
The spec is to get it within .005 because that's how much 'wiggle room' comes stock between the bell and dowels. On a lakewood you can snug a couple bolts and tap it around until it's perfect then weld up two tight ID washers on two of the opposite holes to permanantly locate it to the block. At least thats how I did mine- cheaper than offset dowels.
I Might get flamed for that haha
Good luck
Radar
Posted By: sshemi
Re: Lakewood bellhousings - 06/21/12 07:36 PM
I had to use the dowels with the most offset to get it within spec
Posted By: Stanton
Re: Lakewood bellhousings - 06/21/12 07:57 PM
If you have a 143-tooth flywheel then you'll need a Lakewood as Quicktime doesn't make one for that size.
