When I built my tarmac rally Mk1 Escort I never gave the correct alignment of the gearbox bellhousing a thought. I just assumed everything would bolt up fine. Having just put a new inpu bearing (amongst others) in I am looking into it.
Is there a need to check and adjust the alignment? A box with a tapered input bearing has a small tolerance to mis-alignment but I do not know the tolerance level of the parallel bearing in the Type 9 gearbox. Thoughts?
I put the magnetic base dial gauge on the flywheel this morning but measured HUGE variances on the bellhousing. I suspect this was due to poor mounting of the base or the cheap rubbish tools I was using. Measuring the input hole in the bellhousing of course assumes it is machined 100% correctly!
Using offset dowels would re-align the box if needed but it appears that both the engine block holes and/or the bellhousing holes would need to be reemed out a little to provide the necessary movement.
Just interested if anybody has done this before.....
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