Small block 5 bolt bell housing, I picked this deal up years ago thinking I may use it someday, I'm sure we all know how that goes.
It was missing the bottom cover so that's the project, make one.
This is the start of that job, after acquiring a couple of pictures of what the cover looks like (thanks Dan)
I made a pattern then broke out the plasma.
To my surprise my plasma cut through the 1/2 inch plate no problem.
Upon further inspection of this bell I noticed the gearbox locating hole just did not look right.
Sure enough it had been taken to with a grinder or some other type of hand tool.
Looks like the hole had been opened up to take the large toploader/tko size bearing retainer from the t10 size..
Not good, now how to fix?
After sleeping on it and coffee in the morning I came up with an idea, why not machine the hole out to take a modern quicktime bellhousing insert?
First make a jig up to locate the bell were it should be for machining. To do this I made a fixture up using my good ford bellhousing.
Center the ford bell in the bridgeport then swap out the damaged bell.
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