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| | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 132 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2009 Posts: 132 | Does anyone know an easy way, or less difficult way, to install the clutch fork into the bell housing when the bell housing/engine is mounted in the truck? 1939 JD pickup with 235 and 4 speed.
Thanks | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,337 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,337 | Going from memory, I think you need the ball snapped in the fork and the bushing it screws into removed from the bellhousing. I know it can be a tight fit to snake the fork up into place, then screw the bushing into the bellhousing and then screw the ball into the bushing.
See the USA in your vintage Chevrolet! My Blog | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 132 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2009 Posts: 132 | Dave,
Thanks for the response. I have the ball installed in the fork, and have been able to get the ball stud through the hole, but I haven't been able to get the threads started, both in and out. I did fashion an alignment tool with which to align the stud in the hole, but haven't been able to get that to work. Tomorrow is a new day...and hopefully a bit warmer.
The reason I'm in this mess is because I didn't properly install the ball in the fork from the git-go. Had I done that, it would have been a piece of cake to put it in place.
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Gary | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 132 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2009 Posts: 132 | OK, so this was my final solution. I put the nut/bolt that screws into the back side of the bell housing in the lathe, and I removed that first two threads on the outside. That permitted the bolt/nut to catch the threads on the ball stud first. Then I giggled it into place to thread into the bell housing. The threads can cross, so proceed with caution on the last part. This was suppose to be the easy part of the operation. One never knows.... | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,337 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,337 | Success is success no mater how hard it is.
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