Hi

got the grey motor (FC) out of my old holden today together with the attached red gear box. Took them apart bu undoing the bell housing from the engine.

Planning to attached red gear box to good condition grey motor I have from an EJ.

I noticed the FC has a crankshaft clutch pilot bearing assembly (ie where the gearbox input shaft end goes through the flywheel and into the crankshaft)

However when I look through the flywheel on the EJ it does not have a bearing assmebly just a clean hole at the crankshat for the end of the gearbox input shaft.

The red gearbox seems to fit quite well to the EJ motor even though there is no bearing for the end of the input shaft. It looks like its not made to have a bearing?

Is this normal ?

does it matter if there is no bearing (ie did the models change)

any advice appreciated

thanks

Jeff

There is supposed to be a bronze bush in it and don't even think about driving without it. I have seen some late model front wheel drive manual cars without bearings but things were different back in the days of your car. I would say your EJ eng

Jeff

The usual thing with clutches is to put your own marks on the clutch and flywheel and line them up again when you refit the clutch. Of course that only works when you are reusing the old pressure plate.

I can't remember seeing X marks on the

Jeff

You are talking about two different things here. The clutch consists of two pieces: one is the pressure plate i.e the big heavy piece that bolts to the flywheel and the other is the thin disc with the splined hole in the middle. It is called th