Reply to "Oops I'm doing it again....I lost my head..."

Jay,
!!!!!THANKS!!!! I would have discovered/remembered (you told me before!) this the day of installation...and my desire to use spacers to lift the engine would have been satisfied at that point.....ugh! Where's that stack of washers I had laying around here....!

I want to see what an allen headed nut is....!

Mark, wow! It looks like gravity is used on your jackshaft bracket! You appear to be missing one front bolt entirely! What's up with that!?

I see now that I will not be able to run my whippy dippy new spark plug wire holder... The boss that is on my intake runner is WAY too close to the bracket to allow me to even get a bolt/socket in there........darn! That is a part unique to the Goose.....


Thinking about shaft and bracket assembly order... something like this....

1) install center bearing on shaft. (OD of front two bearings on my bracket (later model part!) is smaller than the rear, so will pass through easily...more bits of threaded rod to use with the bearing puller/pusher!)
2) install shaft through rear boss and slip front bearing onto shaft and press or tap in place using my 5" piece of 1" black pipe (or a specially machined tool....)
3) install rear bearing. Tap or press in place
4) using more pieces of threaded rod, I can turn my bearing puller into a bearing pusher. Extend the tool using two long lengths of proper threaded rod, and something over the far end of the jackshaft bracket to act as something to pull against, to force all three bearings in place at one time.
4a) if you have already installed two of the bearing C-clips, one in the middle and one in the rear bearing location, you can push the shaft in place and not have to worry about pushing it in too far. When the bearings hit the C-clips, they will stop moving!
5) once in place, install remaining two C-clips.
6) install rear pulley. Front pulley needs to remain off during installation of engine into car...

Will think some more about this....
Steve