So...long story short, QuickTime sent me a new bellhousing. Go to install it, same problem, exactly. So, I took the bell housing to a local machine shop and asked them to ream the bellhousing dowel pin holes to .500. I get a call back from them today and they tell me the .500 reamer passed right through without taking any metal off.
So, I pulled out a micrometer and mic'd the dowel pins. It is interesting what I found. They are not perfectly round. They vary from .500 to .505 on both sides.
I am wondering what the heck, I should do? Pound out the dowels (which are new), or call the machine shop and have them ream the bell to .506?
Anyone have some ideas?