This is no fun at all doing by yer lonesome. Especially since it was .023 out from perfect and I only had .007 offset dowels. At least I had the motor out and and on hoist and blocks.
That's what happens after line honing the block I suppose. The offset was such that I needed to raise the housing strait up.
Long story short, I ended up with a 7/16-20 shoulder bolt drilled and tapped through the Lakewood Housing into the top block bell housing boss.
After blocking and shimming the housing up from the bottom I was able to get it dialed in at .001 and drilled a pilot hole followed by the the proper bit for tapping.
Buttoned it all up and I got lucky. The .001 didn't change.
The story ain't over. I ordered the .021 offset dowels from http://www.robbmcperformance.com/products/dowels.html
which are much better than the .007 style that I had.
A 2 hour job crammed into 12...and I still have to redo the whole thing after the new offset dowels get here.
BTW - GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE FROM robbmcperformance.com and on SUNDAY , NO LESS.
That's what happens after line honing the block I suppose. The offset was such that I needed to raise the housing strait up.
Long story short, I ended up with a 7/16-20 shoulder bolt drilled and tapped through the Lakewood Housing into the top block bell housing boss.
After blocking and shimming the housing up from the bottom I was able to get it dialed in at .001 and drilled a pilot hole followed by the the proper bit for tapping.
Buttoned it all up and I got lucky. The .001 didn't change.
The story ain't over. I ordered the .021 offset dowels from http://www.robbmcperformance.com/products/dowels.html
which are much better than the .007 style that I had.
A 2 hour job crammed into 12...and I still have to redo the whole thing after the new offset dowels get here.
BTW - GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE FROM robbmcperformance.com and on SUNDAY , NO LESS.