92sho16
b00sted
I had a flywheel machined yesterday and one of the dowels broke when the shop was taking it out. On top of that there was one that was already cutoff, is it ok to only have one?
flywheel dowels....only one?
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SHObill
'The Collector'
IMO you need all 3 to properly locate PP & keep the rotating mass balanced!
St Louis SHO
Rollin' coal
Agreed. Without the dowles, the PP will not be aligned correctly and may shake.
Phoenix
SHOHOLIC
RCM has some on his site , NOS ford ones.
92sho16
b00sted
Problem is i thought dowels were hardened steel, cant drill them out. I have a couple other flywheels sitting around. It was at the shop when i realized that one had already been cut flush to the surface. I dont think i will be able to get new ones into this one so i guess i have another machined.
Eric VerValin
PiMPSKiLLET
Don't they also take the brunt of the torque applied to them, to keep those forces off the PP bolts? I almost put mine in without them, then decided to sweep the floor one last time and found the one I dropped. 
Sounds like it was a good thing I found it.
Sounds like it was a good thing I found it.I read on here either use all three or none, because it will throw off the balance.
In my other car (not a SHO) I didn't use dowels and I had no ill effects. I had no bad vibes.
This was taken from another forum:
"OK good; clutch bolts are special bolts, regular ones or even grade 8 ones that aren't clutch bolts, won't work right. They have a little shoulder behind the threads to make a sort of dowel pin system to center the clutch on the flywheel."
He then goes on to say it's important to tighten the bolts a little as you go. I trust the person that wrote it, he has never steered me wrong.
I read one time that the shoulder was a shear point. I guess it would be better to have the pressure plate shear rather than the flywheel also. Not saying it's true.
In my other car (not a SHO) I didn't use dowels and I had no ill effects. I had no bad vibes.
This was taken from another forum:
"OK good; clutch bolts are special bolts, regular ones or even grade 8 ones that aren't clutch bolts, won't work right. They have a little shoulder behind the threads to make a sort of dowel pin system to center the clutch on the flywheel."
He then goes on to say it's important to tighten the bolts a little as you go. I trust the person that wrote it, he has never steered me wrong.
I read one time that the shoulder was a shear point. I guess it would be better to have the pressure plate shear rather than the flywheel also. Not saying it's true.
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Phoenix
SHOHOLIC
Use the pins.
Thing is on the SHO no one is 100% sure is the pins only align or they also serves as saving the bolts from shredding appart when the force is applied.
If you dont wanna use them , you'll be the one doing it all over again if it fails.
Thing is on the SHO no one is 100% sure is the pins only align or they also serves as saving the bolts from shredding appart when the force is applied.
If you dont wanna use them , you'll be the one doing it all over again if it fails.
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