All engines share the fact that the bell housing bolts all radiate from the crankshaft center, I fell asleep during geometry lessons and have to working things out in a logical way that suits my brain.
The laser rounds have a 3/8" hole blasted on dead center, using the transfer punches I was able to mark the placement of each engines bell housing bolt locations. The Mazda bolt pattern was the first to be transferred, then the Kubota bell housing with it's crankshaft locater was doweled into position to make the remaining marks.
Having learned from the OP from the other forum who had already done this swap took advantage to correct his mistake with my adapter. What I had to do was rotate the Kubota bell housing 5 degrees to the right to make clearance for the starter. He instead had to grind some external ribs off of his engine block.
This is my last forum post, god bless all you hard working scrappers.
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