Got my pilot bearing (well, its really a pilot bushing) from RD Enterprises today. I've got to give Ray a plug. He is very responsive and has had every part I have been looking for. He even responded back to me over the weekend. Thanks Ray! You have me as a customer for life!
So pilot bearings.......there are several DIFFERENT TYPES and you need to know whether you have four bolt or six bolt crank and then what type of gear box in order to know which pilot bearing you need. Or in my case, a pilot bushing.
It went in easy enough, but Drew and I knew that a brass bushing would compress and then the ID would be smaller and the gear box shaft wouldn't fit. Yes. The truth hurts! We needed to hone the inside of the bushing to fit the gear box shaft. Another step and another hour. Did I tell you it was already late at night on Tuesday?
Never the less, we got it all to fit, bolted on the flywheel, torqued the studs, bolted on the clutch and pressure plate, made sure everything aligned and then slipped the gearbox on. Torqued all the bolts and lifted the engine to install in the chassis. It took a bit of wrangling with hydraulic jacks used for minor adjustments but got it all aligned and bolted in. You really need the front end of the chassis jacked up and put on jack stands to install the engine with the gear box attached. And don't forget to remove the shift lever for clearance.
Was getting late so we decided to wait for the weekend to start drilling holes in the chassis. First order is the gear box bottom mount. Need to align and drill four holes. I think I'm going to read some more before I start drilling holes in the chassis this weekend. Anyone have suggestions for drilling all the chassis hoes to fit the body to the chassis? I would like some insights from this that have done this as my 26R chassis requires almost all the holes drilled to fit.
- TC and Gear box together - finally!
- Installing the engine and Gearbox
- It's starting to all come together!
- TC installed.