The importance of measuring bell housing runout.
The original dowels in my 440/495 during my Tremec installation:
Those look really short to me. I wonder if the holes in bellhousings are tapered at all at the edges. If so, these dowels are almost useless!
You're looking at the ends that were in the block. I welded lug nuts to the face side to crank them out.
The new ones were much longer:
Look how much they stick out past the bell:
The original dowels in my 440/495 during my Tremec installation:
Those look really short to me. I wonder if the holes in bellhousings are tapered at all at the edges. If so, these dowels are almost useless!
You're looking at the ends that were in the block. I welded lug nuts to the face side to crank them out.
The new ones were much longer:
Look how much they stick out past the bell:
