Took a fly wheel off my parts truck , had it surfaced got it back and it doesnt have any dowel pins. I dont remeber there being any on it when I pulled it from the parts truck. I know they wereinstalled for a reason. whats your opinion?

lewis

 

What do you mean by dowl pins in the flywheel? There should be holes to bolt the pressure plate to but I don't remember any dowel pins in mine. Pete

 

ive had fly wheels with dowel pins in them, Mazda, Porsche among others. the holes in the pressure plate usually slide over the dowel pin that isin the fly wheel.

lewis

 

I was reading my service manual the other day and remember somthing about dowl pins around there, i'll try to find it to confirm what it says.

 

the dowel pins are used to keep the plate from riding on the edge of the bolts, they fit more snug that way the hardened pins are doing the job of keeing things still and the bolts are just holding things together without the plate putting side stress on them

 

I know what they are for, I was just curious to know if dodge omitted them from their fly wheels for some unknown reason. Any running without them?

Now that I have the tranny completely bolted in shouldI remove it and put dowel pins in it?

thank you

 

are u sure the alignment pins aren't part of the adapter housing?

 

they don't have dowel pins that I know of, just did a clutch in a buddies truck the other day and don't remember any. Heres a pic of a flywheel from southbend, and I don't see anywhere they could go.

 

thanks, apparently other dodge fly wheels dont have them either so I wont worry about them

lewis

 

yeah I just pulled my stock clutch and all off to replace with a DD and I dont recall any dowl pins or for that matter holes in the crank for them. Now I could be wrong on the holes in the crank part ebcause I wasnt looking either. but i know there are no dowl pins on my flywheel.

 

No dowel pins on mine either. There are locating pins on the adapter plate for the bell housing. Lewis how is the project coming? Sorry I missed your call. Pete

 

as stated earlier, on every fly wheel I've ever seen, there were dowel pins to locate the pressure plate. You would think with all the torque these motors are capable of that there would be dowel pins on the fly wheel.

As for my swap, Ive got the tranny bolted in. I am trying to get the input shaft changed over but Dodge tells me that it costs $377. WOW! I'll look else where. The clutch master/slave was $300 plus as well. I think I'm going to try and shorten the shaft of the donor trucks assembly.

I removed the auto tranny cooling system as well. sure cleans things up in there. What did you do to cap the coolant lines when you unplugged the heat exchanger or did you leave your's in place?

I'm also working on installing the hydra boost unit that came from the donor truck.

Pete' ive got a few other questions as well. Please pm you phone # to me again.

thanks

lewis

 

Pete, Rockland standard Gear hooked me up. $212 for the shaft and $36 for the bearing. For those that need help with ypur xfer case, please call them they are excellent

lewis

 

You are right Lewis. They were a big help. Much cheaper than the Dealer. I'll PM you my number again. I took the air to tranny cooler out. The one in front of the radiator. The water to tranny fluid heat exchanger on the passenger side I plug with 2 NPT Pipe plugs. I just took the lines with the fittings on them to the local hardware store and got the right size plugs and plug them with that. Pete

 

I found the info I was looking for in the manual about dowl pins. There should be housing alignment pins that align the clutch housing to the engine block. but none for the flywheel, i'll upload a pic of it.