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Duane,
I'm not sure what you mean by "pinging the pin holes around the pins." You can open up the pin holes a bit, get the bellhousing perfectly centered and then weld some heavy washers onto the bellhousing in the new correct location. In essence, you're just moving the holes a bit.
I recently aligned my new Lakewood bellhousing and it was right on the money without the need for any adjustment. As I recall it was only .002" off center and Lakewood recommends no more than .004 or .005 or so. If you haven't aligned one before, I suggest you remove the magnetic base and all the other rods from your dial indicator and instead simply create a metal L bracket to mount the dial indicator. I spent an hour trying to make it all work with the magnetic base and rods and never could get the dial indicator into a position that would work. I spent 10 minutes making a metal bracket to mount it to. Just mount the metal bracket under one of the flywheel bolts and make sure the bracket is stiff enough that it won't flex at all while you're dialing it in.
Chris
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