[WhipE350]

Nice work 59coupe! I had a journey to this point with mine. I finally got the bearing out and the new one in, both gave me fits even using the LN tools.

I'm trying to wrap things up but I've run into a snag (I'm posting this over on 986forum too, need to figure out what I'm doing wrong). I kept my flywheel and put in a new clutch, pressure plate, and throwout bearing. I was putting the transmission back in tonight with my Dad and we couldn't get it in far enough to get the bolts to grab.

I had my new slave cylinder in already and figured maybe the throwout bearing was pushing on the pressure plate so I removed the slave, no difference.

We were able to get a couple bolts started but then the others don't reach enough to grab. I could tell I had the input shaft into the clutch because when I turned the crank I saw the transmission spin the drives.

We did everything and couldn't get it in far enough so decided to drop things out and make sure we were messing something up.

So here is the weird part, the input shaft clearly made it into the pilot bearing because I could see the bearing marks on the shaft lithium grease. So we are thinking is the input shaft out from the transmission too far, or is my flywheel not in correctly. So I measured the following:

- The input shaft is 5/16 below the edge of the transmission.
- The pilot bearing is only 3/16 further out from the engine then where transmission mounts to the engine .

This gives me 2/16 which is a perfect fit, yet I could never get the engine closer then 1 inch from the engine.

This doesn't add up! How do I have pilot bearing marks on the shaft if I still have an inch to go?!! It also felt to us like the transmission wasn't going in far enough because it was pivoting on something. Again remember I saw pilot bearing grease marks on the shaft, so it really was like I had reached bottom.

I'll go measure everything again, but I'm really at a lose and this is so frustrating because I'm ready to get her back together and take it for a spin! This isn't rocket science. Like everything, do it once and second time easy...I'm not in easyville right now.