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Type 9 bell housing dust cover
Cheffy - 19/5/11 at 10:00 PM

Evening all,

I know many have not bothered with cover plates between the engine and bell housing, and have run for many miles without issue, but as I had a couple of hours to kill yesterday afternoon I thought I'd knock up a couple of ali plates to help keep the crud out of the clutch on my Zetec/Type 9 installation. Still a bit of final fettling to do but was quite pleased with the results so far. See what you think...........































ATB,

Mart.

dhutch - 19/5/11 at 10:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Cheffy... I had a couple of hours to kill .

I cannot relate to this thread...

Cheffy - 19/5/11 at 10:44 PM

Dusty - 20/5/11 at 10:29 AM

Don't like it. The plates will act like a spacer where they fit between bellhousing and block or sump. They should ideally be present all the way round the bellhousing flange to maintain crank/input shaft alignment.

coozer - 20/5/11 at 12:12 PM

Easier way here....http://www.retro-ford.co.uk/shop/node/197

Cheffy - 20/5/11 at 03:11 PM

Afternoon chaps,

Thanks for the feedback.

Dusty, sorry, should have been a bit clearer in original post, I was going to use the original top plate from the Zetec engine so that the bell housing would sit square on the engine - just wasn't in the photo's - hence a bit more fettling to do yet.




Coozer, thanks for the link. I thought I'd done quite a bit of searching online but hadn't seen that. Could well be an option.

Cheers,

Mart.