William M. Gilroy wrote:
>
> This should be a simple task. I need to get the head off my
> 77 Midget. I have several shop manuals and one says to leave
> the manifolds on, and one says to remove them. Here is what I
> did.
>
Thanks to everyone who responded. I am going to try feeding some
soft cotton rope into the cylinder and turing it over by hand. I
should have enough room to fit a wrench on the crank with the radiator
and water pump out. I should be able to squeeze past the steering
rack. I won't get to this till this Sunday but I will let you
know what happened.
On another note I was going to rebuild my front end this winter.
New/rebuilt shock, bushing, kingpins, rack boots, etc. But I am going to
do
it now. Since I have removed all of that stuff, head, manifolds,
radiator, water pump, I have gobs of room to work in the engine
compartment. Can't think of a reason to wait on the rebuild. Of
course those questions are for another time and thread. You have been
warned. :-)
Bill Gilroy
77 Midget
wmgilroy@lucent.com
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