Quote Originally Posted by miked View Post
Watching that video makes me think you have an engine that has been waiting to go to work. Mike
Just got lucky, I hate paying that much money for an engine that I have not heard run,

The bell housing once removed will look similar to the one shown below with a large perfect circle dead center, I'll use the metal lathe at the farm to turn out a blank to fit that hole. The blank will have a one inch hole drilled dead center in which a dowel maybe placed to hold my reference point on the one inch thick steel plate.

Using transfer punches I'll make the center punched holes where the holes need to be placed, that will take care of mounting the plate to the Kubota engine. As for the Mazda side I'm not afforded the same luxury of finding the center of the crankshaft this easy and will have to resort to measuring hole centers from either the tractor bell housing or those drilled into the engine block.

A nice coating of machinists bluing applied to the thick metal plate will help to make my scribes visible.

Still have to find an oil pan and dip stick for the Kubota engine, could make one but would rather purchase an OEM.