Mr. Lendich, Paul and Butch:
A judge, "her grace" once told me to sit down and do not say another
word. Further explained it was her court, and what shall happen if I did
not
understand.
Well, collectively the three of you on the bench have a super bell
housing
ready for production considering the return on investment. You can
continue
on and on with weight reduction, not a bad idea!
But Paul, with your education, (we both went to Las Cruces High School,
maybe) and wisdom, from this point on is going to be tradeoff's that
must
be met on this weight reduction path.
As I recall, housing dowel pins stopped all propagation cracks on
recalled
early powerglide transmissions. Inspection holes are a must have! Has
anyone
considered the long-term damaged if the starting motor is not properly
aligned with the flywheel. Ask any General Motors mechanic. Enough, I
will
sit down.
Thank you, Bob Boberrorusa-
Thanks Bob,
Constructive criticism is always welcome and yes! The starter is properly
aligned with the starter mounting face machined parallel to the other
mounting surfaces.
Interestingly, the starter mounting holes and starter snout hole is a little
large and allows for some slop, that's in the production housing as well -
I'm guessing that is there as there may be for production tolerances.
At any event the mounting holes in the starter are 11.5 mm but the mounting
bolts are 10 mm - it had me a little perplexed there for a while.
This gives more than enough movement to get a proper teeth meshing even with
slight manufacturing variations - hey if it's good enough for the Mazda
factory it's good enough for me !!
BTW the housing has the two dowel locating pins as per productions
housings - they are a very neat fit (tap-on, tap-off), with a rubber hammer.
Were talking exact locations here !!
George (down under)
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