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Old 11-12-2006, 06:35 PM
Jim Vander Wal Jim Vander Wal is offline
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Simon,

I had another brand of blowproof bell housing.

Screwed around with it for the first season and a half then replaced it with a stock Ford aluminum housing. All of the starter problems went away. As did about 30#.

There's lots of info available on trueing the aftermarket bellhousings and indicating the piece to the crankshaft. I would think that following the alignment proceedures will help correct your problems. It just wasn't worth it to me.

Now many will comment on the hazards of the flywheel and clutch ass'y and the safety of the blowproff housing. Not going to disagree but at the same time there's a lot of new science and material developments that reduce the failure rate of the spinning assemblies.

Jim SPF 1855
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