Removing bellhousing alignment dowells

Removing bellhousing alignment dowells

That's one heck of a good tip there.

I pulled the engine and got one of the dowell pins out with vise grips.

The second one I butchered so bad that I drilled a hole in a piece of 1/8 scrap metal and welded it to the dowell pin. It came out with a little help from my son prying on the scrap metal while I twisted.

I wish I would have drilled a hole in the new ones but I got the bellhousing back in spec with the first attempt with .007 offset dowell pins.

Thanks,
Rod

IQ52 said
Never tried with the engine in the car so I don't know about the clearance issues. I've found that the easiest way for me to remove the bellhousing alignment dowels is to drill the center of the dowel with a letter F drill and tap the stud with a 5/16 course tap. Screw a 5/16 bolt through the stud and push the dowel out. It works so easy that I now drill through the offset bellhousing dowels from the back (the part that pushes into the block), BEFORE I install them, so I can easily tap them while they are in the block and push them out if I have to change the dowel rotation.