I was pretty careful with all the easily visible stuff, but I forgot about
those 2 bolts underneath. My jack stands are busy, so I was reaching
pretty much ) blindly under the car for the slave bolt and pin and drain
plugs.
Hey, this car came with an in-dash am/fm 8 track!!! No dash tho'. :)
Oh yeah! While Chuck was here, he looked at the '67 Midget engine briefly.
He agrees with me that the sleeves are touching on at least 2 cylinders, ( 1
& 2 ) and probably 3 & 4. He seemed to get a bit excited about the porting
and thought that the guides were a bit worn. :) Okay, a 'lot' worn. His
first words when he saw the block was something along the lines of 'blown
head gasket'. Looking at the deck of the block, it is strange to see the
small shiney sections between 1 & 2 and between 3 & 4 and the black section
between 2 & 3.
Robert D.
-----Original Message-----
From Trevor Boicey <tboicey at brit.ca>
To: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Cc: spridget list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: August 26, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: to canada and beyond!
>Robert Duquette wrote:
>> I got the engine gearbox combo out this morning and that's probably as
far
>> as I will get today. While I had the engine up a bit and was trying
vainly
>> to pull it forward, I kept thinking "Frank says this is the easiest way,
>> this is darn difficult." Then I removed the other two bolts that hold
the
>> gearbox mount in, and all went well.
>
> You got lucky, at least those bolts can take it.
>
> Normally the forgotten connection is the clutch hose, or
>the reverse light wiring on the tranny, or something that
>gets irrevocably damaged during the pull.
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
>Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
>ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>Waiting for Guffman.
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