Trannie install with camera

JimS

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Has anybody ever used a bore scope or an inspection camera to aid in aligning the transmission shaft and the crank? Did it help? What other tricks are there to aid in aligning a transmission?
 
(quoted from post at 21:40:35 10/15/16) Has anybody ever used a bore scope or an inspection camera to aid in aligning the transmission shaft and the crank? Did it help? What other tricks are there to aid in aligning a transmission?

I have not attempted this, but if you do please let us know how it works out. Might convince me to invest in a scope if it works fairly well.

Brad
 
If I don't have a clutch alignment tool I have been known to use a wood dowel the size of the splined shaft crudely turned down to the pilot bushing size on the end.
 
If the pressure plate is bolted to the flywheel, and the clutch is out of aliment, a bore scope won't help. The only thing that works is having it lined up right before going back togather.
 
Over the years I have collected a number of input shafts from various junk transmissions and cut the gear foo with a torch. Have had all I needed so far.
 

2X what Cole said. When someone is asking about a split, I always recommend getting the tractor level front to back first with a level against the bottom of the block. Adding a third dimension to the line up makes it so much harder. Another standard practice is some fairly long bolts in two of the holes to act as rails. Another is to have the PTO in gear and turn the shaft at the rear.
 
NO just get some long bolts then when the slines start to enter put pot in gear and turn over you will feel it enguage camera would be in the way.
 
I do not think the scope would be much help, all you need to do is have both lined up as close as possible and they go together without a problem has been my experience over the years. Rod.
 
My eyes just wouldn't be that good, that's all there is to it. As others have said, onlt things that really work are an alignment tool or old input shaft to line up the disc with the pilot bearing. Now, who has old input shafts to use? Lucky for some, not for me that doesn't have one. I have alignment tools for auto/trucks, not tractors. Turning a dowel rod into one would work if I had a wood lathe to turn one, but I don't. We do what we have to do when we have to do it.

Best of luck.

Mark
 
I don't think the answers address the OP's question. He's not asking about the clutch alignment. I got a plastic "tool" with the clutch when I ordered it that aligned the clutch. If memory serves me, when I did mine (on a Sliverado), I just jacked the trans up into position best I could and just slid it forward wiggling a little to get it onto the locating dowels in the bell housing. Don't recall that being a problem or a PITA on that vehicle. On that project there were much bigger PITA issues than that :lol: like getting at some of the bolts on top that required several extensions and a swivel adapter.
 
Never used a bore scope,never even thought about it for clutch alignment/tranny installation. On cars/trucks-trucks with double disc clutches-I make sure the alignment spline slides in and out easily before I install the trans.I always always LIGHTLY lube the splines and pilot bearing with a liquid lube,preferably a non sticky lube.Then I make sure the trans and engine block are square with each other and push it together.And when I disassembled,I made sure to get the trans jack square and made sure it all came out easy and square(when possible).
With a tractor,I roll the rear end away from the engine-it works so much better,safer and more stable.When I reassemble,I hang the clutch disc and pressure plate on the splines,and push it all together.With this method you only have to engage the pilot bearing.Then,bolt the pressure plate to the flywheel,reaching thru the hand hole in the bottom of the bell housing.
Easy-peasy-- well not always: you still usually have to wiggle and jiggle things to make go go together. And sometimes wish I had the strength of a horse,but usually the above methods work well,and things go together with minimal effort.Mark
 
Helped a neighbor just the other day put a combine engine in a 4040 JD. The clutch disc and the pto disc need hyd pressure to lock up. Especially the engine disc would not stay centered. So we just continually turned the engine and kept shaking it. Fell right in. Guess was lucky. But a camera would be nice.
 

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