[CAMAROBOY69]

Thanks Steve. My back was the easy part. Its the Vertigo problem that requred surgery and has been a constant issue.

Spent about 4 hours in the garage trying to piece this together with all the different bell housing, flywheel, and tranny combinations. After several mock ups, I finally got the flywheel, bell housing and starter to work. But it required quite a bit of modification to the spacer bracket that is between the block and the flywheel. I ended up drilling some new holes in the spacer bracket and re-located the starter hole by about half an inch. Thats what the cardboard starter template was for. After doing all of that it worked!!! The starter bolted up in the proper location next to the flywheel and the bell housing bolted on and cleared everything. In fact I used a jumper box to actually turn the engine over last night!!!

So now that the everything bolts up and engine turns over, I just need to get the broken bolt out of the back of the block and get a few more tranny bolts. Then I can put the engine and tranny into the car. I also bolted up the Polyeurethane tranny mount right before I went in for the night. Very productive and exciting night.


68 Flywheel bolted onto 74 engine but the 68 starter is about an inch from the flywheel because of the 74 spacer plate.





Time to modify the spacer plate so the starter fits closer to the 68 starter.











Starter bolted up after spacer plate is modified. Had to relocate the starter hold and had to drill out several other holes so the bell housing would bolt up to the back of the engine and still have the starter bolt up. Perfect fit!!!!





Used this jumper to turn the engine over.