Mornin' fellas!
Carlo, Oleyellar and Cobra20646 are exactly right. It seemed strange to me the first time i saw it as well, but the housing was designed to offset the pinoin from the eng. / trans. centerline. I'm not the expert on this (or much else really
) so I can't go into detail on why it is necessary but I can tell you that we did design it that way
.
Dana