nrpetersen
Curmudgeon
Barrett - FYI - If you don't have the clutch disk exactly aligned, you are probably looking at like ~1000 lbs of force to drag the clutch disk across the flywheel face(s) so that the spline and the engine-transmission pilot diameters will line up. Just be sure that after you get it worried and forced together, that you release the clutch & kinda float things as much as possible while tightening the engine-transmission bolts.
Otherwise the axis of the engine crankshaft and the transmission axis will have an alignment discrepancy that will show as a massive rotating (one per engine revolution) side force on the spline ---- forever!
Be careful. I wish there was a more direct way to get that initial alignment of the clutch spline before the engine-transmission connection is fixed. If you have to, I suppose you could pry radially on the hub of the clutch disk enough to slide it a little ways - but which way? I feel for you.
Otherwise the axis of the engine crankshaft and the transmission axis will have an alignment discrepancy that will show as a massive rotating (one per engine revolution) side force on the spline ---- forever!
Be careful. I wish there was a more direct way to get that initial alignment of the clutch spline before the engine-transmission connection is fixed. If you have to, I suppose you could pry radially on the hub of the clutch disk enough to slide it a little ways - but which way? I feel for you.