Sorry, another stupid question from a newbie car guy......

When I reinstalled a new bellhousing, clutch fork, and to bearing, and I look down the bore to the pilot bushing, it doesnt seem lined up. I used an alignment tool to align the clutch disc to pilot bushing and that looked centered fine but now that the BH, fork, and TO bearing are mounted, the TO bearing is over to the left (driver side) a bit. Does the to bearing end up riding out on the fork a little and not completely in the cradle of the fork? Seems like it would all line up if the to bearing were not completely seated in the fork. I have the fork clips all tucked in the to bearing like they're supposed to. I have a GM camaro fork, zoom clutch kit, and a new 464697 bellhousing.

Thx

Mark

Yes, with this bearing tucked into the fork, its not going to look like all is aligned, until you get the trans in and the bearing is riding on the trans bearing retainer. I think the bearing throat will end up being in the center if the fork tips. If you want to get some idea, put that dummy pilot shaft back in and center the bearing around it. It will be close but all is lacking the trans bearing retainer. This is what centers the bearing.

Yes, don't worry about it!....Once the tranny is in, everything will line up like it's supposed too!


Just make sure you have the throwout bearing properly attached to the clutch fork!

See pg 44 in index(42 on page)
http://www.haysclutches.com/pdf/74269G_2008HAYS.pdf

Thanks guys!

Mark,Have you checked the bellhousing alignment I'm new to manual trans also but I'm getting ready to put a lakewood bellhousing and a muncie 4spd in my 67 rs/ss I've looked there web site and talked to a rep about it and all you need to do is make sure the bellhousing hole that the input shaft goes threw is centerd up around .008 runout or less to the flywheel.Lakewood has this on there website and it will show how to check this.Might save your bearings and a bad shifting problem!