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Thanks, guys!

 

Took the cylinder head to the "head" shop - I remember when that term had an entirely different connotation!

 

I don't remember.....

 

If you're going to do it, why not do it right? Right?

 

Goin racin this weekend at Blackhawk Farms, be back Tuesday

 

"Wouldn't the BFH fix that right up?"

Well, as it turns out - that's exactly what happened - tho maybe not like you were thinking. In fact, I probably could have done just like that but since I didn't know what was wrong I took it apart.

After waiting for what seems like an endless time ( 6 weeks!) for the guy who built it to contact me with a solution I decided either I need to crate it up and ship it back to him ($600 shipping round trip and who knows how long to get it back) or take it apart and see if I can fix it.

So I took it apart.

First I had to remove the engine block off the transmission - not too big a task at this point as I wasn't very far along in the reassembly process - but a PITA anyway, since I hate to redo work already completed - but, needs must.

Once the block was off I pulled this main gear assembly out of the box and spent a while looking at it trying to understand what was wrong. Finally, I saw it.....there was a gap where there shouldn't have been one, and it was just about the amount I needed to make the gears line up.



But, I didn't know how all this went together - was it a press fit or did it somehow screw together. At this point I was able to reach Nick and he told me it was a slip fit but tight, so I set it up in my big vise, found an appropriately sized piece of aluminum round stock to use as a drift and hit it with my dead blow hammer.

It popped right into place!



That done the fun began as I now had to re-insert this assembly into the case, and the real fun part - slide 6 or 7 clutch discs over their mating gear - blindly. It took about 2 hours of fiddling and the help of a friend so I had an extra pair of hands to jiggle, bump and maneuver the assembly into place but we finally got it.



Once that was done I could reunite the block with the transmission and restart the build.

I got some things done, including getting the lower gear shimmed and installed correctly, then mounting the back of the case in and torqued up. Then installed the torque converter and set TDC.





After that I put all the covers on and installed a few other bits and called it a night.







More as it happens....