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Re: [Spridgets] Installing engines

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Installing engines
From: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:05:05 -0700
Lower the engine into the bay, mate up the pilot shaft and the engine, lower 
it halfway towards the final position, THEN fit on the mounts.  Easy that 
way.

Glen


> All right.  What is the magic word for getting an engine into a Spridget 
> when the engine mounts, etc. are clearly wider than the available space? 
> We have grunted the requisite number of grunts.  We have use more than 
> enough profanity for several engine swaps, some of it ordinary, some 
> relatively creative.  And still, it does not shrink.  The manual says (too 
> late, as manuals usually do) to offer the engine to the transmission with 
> the motor mounts in place.  Is that the magic?
>
> Michael Rowe
> Long Island, NY
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