Actually, I'm sure a proper rope sling would be quite satisfactory. It was
just the nautical image causing a moment of cognitive dissonance...
I'm not sure that I would trust any old piece of rope I found laying about
the garage, however. Synthetics are notoriously stretchy, for instance.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 12/1/05 1:40 PM, Bob Howard at mgbob@juno.com wrote:
> Yo ho ho and the wind blows free,
> Oh for the life on the rolling sea.
>
> Yep, rope. It is probably spliced into a grommet (circle) , or it
> could be two grommets. Fig. A.26 shows the chain's hook is centered over
> valve cover. Forward loop passes just forward of and against the exhaust
> manifold and then appears to drop straight down to the sump, and the
> after loop passes just behind and against the exhaust manifold then is
> visible going vertical to the sump. This is a picture of engine
> removal, it turns out. I wrote earlier that it was a photo of an
> installation.
> Fig. R.2 shows installation of the body onto chassis. In this photo
> engine is in place, car is on wheels, steering wheel and column have been
> installed. Though the hoist in the photo is a crossbeam with vertical
> rods hooked under the body, the text says "A rope sling is quite
> satisfactory."
> Bob
>
>
>
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:35:58 -0800 Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
> writes:
>> Did the manual show the starboard watch hauling the line through the
>> blocks, under the baleful glare of the bosun? Heh heh...
>>
>> Rope... omigod...
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>>
>>
>> on 12/1/05 11:09 AM, Bob Howard at mgbob@juno.com wrote:
>>
>>> Using the rocker studs gives me the jim-jams also. In the
>> workshop manual for TD-TF, there is a photograph of an engine being
> swung
>> into a TD by means of a rope grommet wrapped around the engine,
> probably
>> 3/4 diameter sisal. I used a 5/8 diameter nylon rope when swinging a
>> TD engine & gearbox out and in last time; it worked very easily and,
>> as a wooden-boat sailor, I was more comfortable with rope than with
>> chain.
>>> Bob
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