Anybody else have anything to add?
thanks, Rick Hoffman
>>You just had to ask that, dintja Rick ?<<
Actually, what I have to add are just two of my own
experiences that thankfully did not end up doing
serious bodily harm to my bodily, but could have been
avoided if I'd just USED THE RIGHT TOOLS;
-Once when replacing a 4spd. tranny into a '66 Nova
(with the engine in the car), I did not have a tranny
jack available, so I used the next best thing: me. I
placed a small jack under the back of the engine to
hold it steady, and laying under the car, positioned
the bellhousing with my hands and the tailshaft w/my
feet, jockeyed it into position. Well, once I had the
input shaft inserted into the clutch disc, I released
my grip on the bellhousing end a bit, and using my
feet, began to move the tailshft around to get the
whole shmere to slide home. The result: the input shaft
worked itself out and the front end of the trans fell
square on my head. I had an M-21 shiner for about a
week to remind me of how NOT to install a tranny.
-Once I replaced a starter on a 911, but gained access
to the starter area (located directly behind the
passenger), by removing only the RR wheel, and putting
a jackstand only under that side. Unknown to me at the
time, was that this starter was faulty, and had been
assembled so that the solenoid WAS ENGAGED. The result
was that when I hooked up the starter lead, the starter
did what all good starters will do, and tried to start
the car ! Well with one wheel still on the ground, the
911 left off the jackstand, and directly into the rear
bumper of the truck in front of it. Incredibly no
damage occurred, and the jolt was enough to free up the
solenoid, but had something not been there to stop it,
I feel I would have become one w/a three-wheeled 911
doing it's best to start !
Lessons learned by-
dstone@sc9.intel.com
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