How do I remove the existing alignment dowel pins in my FE block? Seems my top-right pin is in too deep and I barely get contact through the bellhousing? I tried pulling with visegrips without any luck.
After 2 measurements looks like I'm in the area of .017 out of line...so I will need to use the offset dowels.
What a miserable day this has been. Those of you who have gone through this process can comiserate!
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Another option is:
to drill you bellhousing oversize,
make some hollow dowels that fit over your alignment pins,
zero out your bellhousing,
weld in your new alignment dowels.
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Carefully drill the correct size hole into the dowell and then either tap it with either 1/4" or 5/16" tap or use a self threading slide hammer to jerk the dowell pin out. A little rust penetrant might help too.
Rick
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If you have a welder (arc welder preferred) weld a piece of all-thread onto it, slip a short piece of pipe over it, put a nut and washer on the end of the all-thread and tighten the nut to extract it...
Just an update...almost there. One of my dowel pins was a real B!@#H to get out. I drilled and tapped it and used a slide hammer to try to pull it. Eventually pulled the threads. Tried heat. Then I found the magic tool. Bolt-outs from Craftsman. THese things ROCK. I put one on the dowel and gave it a couple spins with my impact wrench. The tapped it again and pulled it out with the slide hammer. The second one came right out with the slide hammer.
I bought the offset dowels. I was measuring .017 out of alignment so I was borderline between the medium and large offset dowels. I tried the medium. First attempt .015, second attempt after a twist od the screw driver was .011, last attempt was .006. I think I need to step up to the next size dowel...good thing I ordered both. Should be done tomorrow.
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Summit Racing has the offset dowels...at my door in 2 days. Funny how I've been swearing about this for the past week...now that I'm almost done I'm bragging about it like I'm a master mechanic....watch out Phil Remmington :-D
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Bellhousing Alignment
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