Bolts right in!
Thats what they say. Yeah right!

Here is what I have:
1959 235 engine
1941 bellhousing, flywheel, tranny

Yesterday I found out that in 1959 they used wider bolts to bolt the flywheel on the crank shaft. O.K. redrilled the 1941 flywheel no big problem so far.

Today I wanted to bolt on the 41 tranny. It seems that the input shaft is about an 1/4 inch to long. (Of course it is not but it wont slipp in all the way)

Than I checked the old engine. There is a roller bearing instead of the later bushing. But same size.

Still have no clue why it is not going all the way in. It stoppes about a 1/4 inch before the tranny and the bellhousing surfaces mate.

Im about to take a torch and burn the whole thing down.

Any ideas please?

Thanks, Frank

To old to die young.