Thread: 4.2 m117 heads
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Old 06-06-2019, 07:35 PM
Frank Reiner Frank Reiner is offline
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Originally Posted by rwd4evr View Post
My dowel pins were press fit. I had to knock it off with some tapping. How do you "tap into concentricity?" What are you measuring with? I find it very hard to believe the dowels aren't there to positively locate it. Every engine block has dowel pins or a locating ring system on the trans. The plate rgisters to the trans with the ring on it and to the engine with the dowels. If the dowels don't locate it the ring is useless too.

The attached is from the FSM; you noted this procedure in post #16.
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