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Old Sep 8, 2011 | 11:00 PM
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building my stroker and putting the acc. on and the rods are hitting the windage tray what have yall done? new tray or space with washers? any ideas?
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Mast makes a clearanced stroker tray. Its probably expensive. I just made some spacers for my application. Worked great.
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so spacers seems to work? and the pickup tube still did ok?
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I added one washer and one lock washer and it cleared the tray you dont need much and on the pick up tube i just had to make the hold on the leg a little wider i have no problems
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Originally Posted by 09camaro383
I added one washer and one lock washer and it cleared the tray you dont need much and on the pick up tube i just had to make the hold on the leg a little wider i have no problems
.This is what I did.
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Use washers. Pretty standard practice, but be sure to check pickup to pan clearance. Spacing the windage tray will cause the pickup to be closer to the pan.
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Use washers. Pretty standard practice, but be sure to check pickup to pan clearance. Spacing the windage tray will cause the pickup to be closer to the pan.

how much clearance should i have? any way to bolt the pickup under the windage tray?
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Originally Posted by cleonard
how much clearance should i have? any way to bolt the pickup under the windage tray?
Usually somewhere between 1/4"-3/8" works well.

Just clean the pickup, put tape over it, then put two 1" cubes of a soft clay or Play-Doh on each end of the taped up pickup. Wet the cubes with oil or water, and then place the pan on the engine with the gasket.

When you take the pan off, the oil should keep the cubes from sticking so you can measure the height of the flattened cubes to see how much clearance you have.
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Like KCS said just recheck when you are through and make it right. We use two to three 3/8 washers on the windage trays on mosty stroker deals every day or so and you usually do have to check the pickup height to make sure it isn't bottomed out in the pan.
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Sometimes after this the windage tray to the pan mist be checked as well especially on vette pans or GTO etc and fixed there too.
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thanks for the info looks like two washers is going to do the trick.
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You can get a stroker tray from GM for pretty cheap.. This is the way I went..
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You can get a stroker tray from GM for pretty cheap.. This is the way I went..


part number?
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ok ended up with three washers and now my pickup is to close to the pan, looking for options from the pros. i thought about haking up the widage tray to were i can get the pickup tube under it in the spots it bolts up, anyone?
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Tap on the pickup with a rubber mallet.
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Tap on the pickup with a rubber mallet.
i like it.
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yes and or even just push on it but not too much although you can bend it back if you push or tap it down too far.
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Originally Posted by cleonard
part number?
I can't find one for you. I can call my buddy that got it for me and get it. You can try calling the GM parts counter at your local GM dealer. I know he ordered it from the dealer as a GM part for me..
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I can't find one for you. I can call my buddy that got it for me and get it. You can try calling the GM parts counter at your local GM dealer. I know he ordered it from the dealer as a GM part for me..

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