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No, because what I am after was a very specialized application. Most transmission supply houses no longer stock hard parts for old 3-speed transmissions anymore. An odd extension housing and output shaft that hasn't been used for 45-years is not going to be around in a parts house. Their shelf...

That lathe has a hydraulic chuck on it. So long as you have the head of the bolt against the backstop it will clamp around the head of the 12-pt. just fine. The backstop is bolted into the chuck, threaded rod with two jam nuts and just adjust it out to get it in an area you like. Sometimes I...

I used a 5/8" collet and had a back stop inside the collet. That way I could shove the bolt head in and close the collet with repeatability every time. Touched off the parting tool at the end of the bolt and set X zero. Backed the carriage out and stepped over .118" for the parting tool and...

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Having just dealt with all of this I can tell you that the B&M 10230 internal balanced flexplate has two different diameter bolt patterns for 5/16" bolts and the smaller diameter for the 7/16" bolts. However the converter I bought has 3/8" bolts so I had to drill the 5/16" smaller diameter...

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Not degreeing a cam is a huge mistake a lot of guys make. You can never assume it's going to be even close. If you put a lower cost timing chain in they will stretch and you'll lose 2-3 degrees within a 100 miles. You don't have to pull the heads to degree a cam, but that's the first place I...

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