Bell Never Aligned

Magnum Valiant said

This is not answering the op's question and I hope I'm not hijacking this post. But...if the BH alignment was off, we would remove the dowels, align the housing and drill and ream for oversized dowels. This was on big Cummins powered trucks, never tried small block.

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No just check the alignment, if it is over .007" total, get the .007" offset dowels and realign. Do NOT drill and resize does not move the alignment. As far as Cummins that is a big diesel and the specs are different. Just drilling and reaming the hole does not move the bellhousing, just makes a bigger hole. You have to use offset dowels to move the bellhousing and the dowels are available. I have 9 sets on the shelf. Plus nothing will ever bolt up in the future.