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Old 01-24-2017, 10:31 PM   #17
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Default Re: radius ball felt pad installation in bellhousing.

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Originally Posted by TerryO View Post
About a year ago one of the national club's magazine had an article that said to cut a small coil spring into rings and insert the ring in the recess to raise the bolts to a proper height. I did the repair and it worked very well. I don't remember the size of the spring but I bought it at ACE. It works well because it is thin enough to fit right in the hole without any grinding.

TerryO
I think i used a piece of 1/4-1/8" pipe nipple... or an old bushing out of something... something i had laying around was used and fit nice snug fit on the bolt and no bigger than the diameter of the head.
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