found these in the bag containing the bolts for the engine to bellhousing. I find no mention of them or illustrations showing them in the service notes. They do fit round the bellhousing bolts
What are these?
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What are these?
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Re: What are these?
They look like locating dowels to me. If so, their job is to ensure a more perfect location between the parts than the bolt can provide, because the bolts have a bit of clearance in their holes. Are there shallow larger holes counterbored into the bolt holes in the engine rear face and bellhousing front face? There may be these rollpin/dowels already fitted in these holes on one side or the other.
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Re: What are these?
Definitely not the locating dowels for the bell housing/engine - they are solid dowels - and I think the bell housing/gearbox are too. They look like the sliding dowels you might find on an alternator fixing.
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Re: What are these?
Theres 4 of these that locate the head to the block, I think lotus called em spirol pins.
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Mechanics can be a pain for adding a few bits to a box though just to make up your head itch.
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Re: What are these?
They have a much thicker wall on them than the Alternator dowels
Of all the things I have lost I think I miss my mind the most...
1952 MG TD
1957 MGA 1500
1959 Austin Healey Sprite
1975 MG Midget 1500
1990 Lotus Excel
1952 MG TD
1957 MGA 1500
1959 Austin Healey Sprite
1975 MG Midget 1500
1990 Lotus Excel