[Jay S]

If the dog bone can’t be pried up with the plate on top of it and fitted to the block, that part sounds good. But from what I see in the photo’s the dog bone needs to be centered better. When the dog bone is up against on lifter it lets the other lifter rotate a lot. See the photos below.

If the plate is actually supporting the dog bone on the inside and the block is supporting the dog bone on the other side, and the dog bone can’t be pried up at all on the block side then that is quite a bit better than using the modified Ford spider to hold down the Ford dog bone (which are really to short) in a Pontiac. I am afraid with the dog bone pushed up against one lifter the dog bone is not engaged far enough into the adjacent lifter, which is allowing the lifter to rotate to much, it will be pretty hard on the axle bearings with that much rotation.

When a dog bone fails one ear will usually break off. With the dog bone pushed all the way to one side the forces on the dog bone ears increase a bunch, at least they would have with the spider assembly. The way you have the spiders sandwiched in between the plate and the block it might support the dog bone ears better, and a ear would only break after an axle failure. IMHO the dog bone are really to short, if you could find away to keep them centered I think you would have more success. I commend you on your efforts. It sounds like it will run like that, how long it will run before something fails, that is the million dollar question.