Bellhousing alignment...

mopardude318 said

Okay. I double checked and I zeroed the dial at the top 12 O'clock measurement (-44). It reads exactly +44 at the bottom (6 O'clock) position. I'm getting exact repeatable results. I feel good.

Yea, Hughes engines built the short block, at least they did a good job align boring it.

.021 offset dowels should be here tomorrow.

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So, 0 at 12 o'clock and +44 at 6 o'clock?

That would mean the bell has to move .022" up I think. Makes sense with the negative number too, the original negative numbers shows the bell is closer to the gauge at that point, so it was sitting low. Re-zeroed so the zero is at the smallest distance between the gauge and the bell, it shows the bottom of the bell as being further away from the fixed radius, so again, the bell is sitting low.

At least if my thinking is correct...

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It's not, I have it backward here. Sorry! The "negative" numbers threw me.