Thread: 4.2 m117 heads
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Old 05-25-2019, 10:52 AM
Frank Reiner Frank Reiner is offline
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Originally Posted by rwd4evr View Post
It also bolts on with no dowel pins to accurately align it with the block. I can align it with a dial indicator on the crank and the bell but I don't see it staying put with the amount of shock load it gets drifting. Soon as it walks . O5 " high rpm shifting will be gone, then input bearing..

What a pity that Mother Benz did not know that dowels would be so necessary when she attached the intermediate plate to the iron block.
The lack of dowels must be causing you no end of grief. So many gearboxes trashed.
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