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Tremec 5 speed conversion in a 1970 Charger

The transmission mount has 2 carriage bolts that go through the crossmember. One was crooked when I pulled the mount from the box. When I straightened it, the meager weld broke loose.
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I positioned the bolt and tacked welded it back into place.

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Test fit....A-OK.
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...fire up the engine and hold a file to that crankshaft while it spins....mill it down while in place...just don’t burn yourself on the headers



watermelon
 
FWIW .002 emery cloth might fix... .020 emery cloth ain't gonna fix..

You could machine the bore of the flywheel & honestly it's probably your best easy fix... But you won't want to use that flywheel in another crankshaft...
 
watermelon said:
...fire up the engine and hold a file to that crankshaft while it spins....mill it down while in place...just don’t burn yourself on the headers



watermelon
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How do you start an engine without a flywheel/ring gear for the starter?
 
1 Wild R/T said:
FWIW .002 emery cloth might fix... .020 emery cloth ain't gonna fix..

You could machine the bore of the flywheel & honestly it's probably your best easy fix... But you won't want to use that flywheel in another crankshaft...
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I'd be fine with that.
 
Before you look into any machining get a accurate measurement on that diameter... A set of calipers that read in .010 increments ain't gonna do it..
 
How about a Stanley Tape measure?
 
I'll have to buy something. Until now, I've never had the need for such precision instruments.
 
Why don't you buy one of these to really locate bellhousing. Your alright but it would bug me. I was able to borrow one from my maintenance dept at work. Cheap ones $35.
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I'd like to buy something locally so I don't have additional delays.
I have this....

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I can't tell how to read it though.

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I never went to school for this!

I will look into the dial calipers.
 
I am trying really hard to resist buying from those guys.
 
eldubb440 said:
looks looks .158 plus the size of the opening in the closed position...... if that is a 1"-2" mic, 1.158
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Since his calipers read 2.150 I'm gonna say 2-3". and since the thimble doesn't appear to be past the second line I'm thinking 2.148 not 2.158..
 
That was a random setting, not an actual measurement.
What I meant was, I don't understand the scale of these numbers. The dial shows 0-5-10-15-20 and back to zero. I don't understand a 0-25 scale as anything familiar.
 
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Kern Dog said:
That was a random setting, not an actual measurement.
What I meant was, I don't understand the scale of these numbers. The dial shows 0-5-10-15-20 and back to zero. I don't understand a 0-24 scale as anything familiar.
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each visible line is .025.......one revolution gets you to the next line.....i never saw increments of .004 on the spinny thing, usually they are .001
 
moparedtn said:
Man up, Nancy boy! :lol:
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Yeah, I'm not a quick as I use to be... But even on my best day I'm not sure I could have fired the engine up then unbolted the flywheel....... Actually I'm quite sure I couldn't...
:rofl:
 
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