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Re: MGB vs. Engine Stand

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Subject: Re: MGB vs. Engine Stand
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:33:28 -0800
Huh. Weird. I know I did it, but I don't have any photos to prove it! I 
could take a photo of the business end of the engine stand, for 
comparison, I suppose...

Bud Krueger had this to say:

>A few weeks ago someone expressed difficulty in mating up an engine stand 
>with
>an MGB engine.   Some of us, myself included, pooh-poohed the problem.  Mea
>Culpa.
>
>      Last night I finally got around to trying to hook up my (recently 
>pulled)
>77B engine to my engine stand that has served well for XPAG engines.  I 
>take it
>all back!  The XPAG (TD) allows one to easily  bolt the arms of the engine 
>stand
>to the holes otherwise occupied by the bellhousing bolts.  The casting in the
>back of the B engine doesn't provide room for the bolt heads that mount 
>the arms
>to the stand.
>
>    It took a number of trips to the Polaroid machine shop today to gather 
>up a
>handful of parts and pieces to make the adaptation.  If anyone has an 
>image of
>how they bolted an MGB engine to a stand, I'd love to see it?  TIA.
>
>--
>Bud Krueger
>http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
>52TD
>77MGB
>


--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.

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