What are you taking about with my name in it? Why am i your second choice? Mark V On Thursday, April 29, 2004, at 04:32 PM, content22207 wrote: > You fail to understand: even though they are vastly superior vehicles, > a Mark V is my second choice (Pigeon Forge *IS* a DeLorean event). > > I've been closely examining the fit between my lastest victim -- er, > clutch disc -- and the alignment tool. For the first 1/4"-1/2" it is > indeed very possible to be in the splines yet still not fit 100%. Held > up to the light, you can see that there's a surprising amount of > wiggle room at that point. The tool easily replicates my twofold > problem: > - Slight angle downwards > - Slight misalignment, with too much pressure on one side of the > splines > I think I've been relying too much on the bellhousing bolt holes. They > are not a tight 10mm fit (only hold the transmission and engine > together, not in alignment). With jacks at far ends of the engine and > transmission, and loose fitting rods through the bellhousing, I am > exerting too much downward pressure on the input shaft, and never > recover as I pull it through (off to one side too, and never recover > from that either). A 10 spline disc is strong enough to orient the > input shaft without damaging itself. A 28 spline definitely is not. > > When installing a 10 spline transmission all you have to do is pay > attention to torque on the mounting bolts. If it binds, resistance on > a bolt will tell you when and where, allowing you to compensate on the > opposite side. And as I said, the disc is not damaged in the process. > A 28 spline can NOT do the same. There is absolutely no noticeable > change in bolt resistance if it binds (trust me -- I've done it twice > without realizing it). > > For the price of the damaged clutch discs I could have bought a proper > transmission jack... > > Bill Robertson > #5939 > >> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Ryan <deloreanbiker@xxxx> wrote: >> Perhaps you could enter your Lincoln in the show as >> "modified" DeLorean. It could be parked right >> alonside the D-Rex. Nah, bad idea. Rich would >> probably try to crush it. >> > > > > > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx > > For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see > www.dmcnews.com > > To search the archives or view files, log in at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Come see all of my Photo's at my Website's http://photos.yahoo.com/snextime http://groups.msn.com/DMCPhotos/shoebox.msnw http://www.exoticrides.com/galleries/showgallery.php?ppuser=57 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/