Bell-housing alignment help

nm9stheham said
Sorry to be late to comment! Believe it or not, I have been following along and last night at about 4 AM in bed, my brain started whirling, and I started questioning a few things. Most had been addressed long ago (there may be one trig error but it does not effect that BIG vertical offset), but not this item. It may be nothing at all, so I'll apologize in advance if it wastes your time, but stuff DOES move around when bolts are torqued in place.

moper said
I didn't look closely enough.. you DEFINATELY have to have all the bolts in and torqued to spec before you dial the bell. All cast items can move. I dealt with a welded bell that was really bad until all the bolts were in... Then it only required a small adjustment. Thanks nm9s.

OK, I am happy now! I torqued up all the bolts. Even found one I was missing that feeds in through the block side over by the oil filter.

I also found a better way to mount the indicator. Here are my readings:

12 = 0
3 = .017
6 = .042
9 = .030

Vertically: push down .021
Horizontally: push left .0065

So, if I place the .021 offsets in the 6:10 direction I should come within .005 spec.