Bellhousing

The new bushings for the clutch lever shaft have been installed into the bellhousing and the shaft, the throwout fork and bearing have been installed as well. As stated earlier, this is not a xk120 bellhousing. Those are open on the bottom and the flywheel and clutch is covered with a steel bottom plate. They were prone to cracking and were often replaced with a later version like this one which is a xk150 version. So the bellhousing is attached with 8 bolts to the trans and secured with lock tabs. Now we await the clutch disc to install this onto the engine block.

In other news, the intake and exhaust valves have been sent to the machinist to be fitted. Soon a lot of parts will need to be ordered to finish the head assembly. Also, I need to order a special composite head gasket. The block has been shaved to flatten and currently the pistons protrude fron the top of the block by .025". An additional .040" is needed for expansion and overrun so I need a gasket of .065" which is not exactly standard. The price to be paid for restoring old stuff.