Ditchpig

I went and put my 20R into my truck and bolted it up to either a L50 or 52 with a new clutch and everything all shiny and new. Turned the key and the starter just went CLUNK. The flywheel or something attatched to it was hitting something in the bellhousing. I checked and there were no bolts or wrenches left in there and I've narrowed it down to my clutch arm/release bearing/throwout hub. I dunno if the L43 that I removed the Arm and Hub from have different clearances than the L50/52 series tranny but the clutch pressure plate was hitting the arm and there was NO FREEPLAY on the arm whatsoever with the tranny and motor bolted together. I have the arm out of the L50/52 and I will replace the L43 arm in there, but I haven't got the damned hub... will this work?

Beelaay

Did you have to buy longer bolts to go inside of the motor because everything seems to line up I just can't get the bolts to thead on ?

ThatGuy1295

got everything up to that.?

Have your tried turning the motor over with a wrench on the front pulley (harmonic balancer) to verify its not the starter at fault?

Beelaay

Did that an still nothing

ThatGuy1295

Beelaay. Is that a rock climbing reference?

Clutch fork wont move? like at all? Youd think the trans would be very difficult to mount up if theres that much binding going on.

85toy

you have to use the l50/52 arm the l43 one is different. I JUST did this exact swap and i had no problems.

85toy

you need to buy two longer bolts, they are the ones on the left and right side of the bellhousing, need to be about 1/2" longer

Beelaay

Thank you so much