I did preliminary fitting of the tranmission with everything installed. All the adaptors, the bellhousing and the clutch etc. A
HEADSUP on the hydraulic throw up bearing. I thought I'd be able to slide the bearing assembly onto the trans input and then slide the whole thing in just taking care to run the hydraulic hoses out of the clutch fork opening. I ran two hoses instead of the single hose. The one hose was normal, the one that brings the hydraulic fluid from the master cylinder. The bearing has a second coupler with a bleed screw like on a caliper. I saw no way to get at the bleed screw once it was inside of the bellhousing the way they showed in the instructions. It would have been way up inside the bellhousing and I would think impossible to get at, especially once in the car. So bought two AN -4 hose lines, one for the hydraulic in and I installed a second -4 AN high pressure line to that bleed fitting running it out of the bellhousing too. I'll run the bleed line up the firewall and make a small bracket to hold it there. Then I can bleed the bearing from the engine compartment. So back to the install. Because of the length of the fittings for the line hoses, you can't fit the bearing plus the fittings, plus the lines all in through the bellhousing trans hole. So you have to place the bearing assembly inside of the bellhousing and install the trans while guiding the bearing onto the bearing collar. Sounds easy but the bearing has an o ring that helps seal it againts the collar. The bearing has to be slid onto the collar through the fork hole with basically just your finger tips. Mine were just not strong enough to push it on but I was able to use a bent small pry bar and large blade screw driver to get in and push the bearing back onto the collar.
So, BODDA BING, BODDA BOOM, I was able to get it all put in together and bolted down. Then I realized that, although I thought I had done a great job measuring the bearing for clearance using the supplied shims, the bearing was up right against the clutch fingers. I could just move the bearing but it was touching against the fingers. The installation instructions said the mesurements should leave you with about .050 clearence when all the measuring is done. Each shim was .050 thick so I had to pull the trans, pull one shim, and do the install all over again. This is a pic of the assembled engine and tranmission:
This is a pic I finally got from the BOP Fall Festival. It's me getting the award for Best Special Interest car of all the BOP cars there with Jim Wangers.
MArk L