Methinks you have plenty of flaccid experience, BHT.
You can easily weld the little cages of the cage nuts so they don't blow out
the sides, or, weld the nuts solid and elongate the wholes on the flange of
the radiator for easier fitting.
Also, longer bolts make it easier.
I use an air ratchet and the whole job is about 90 seconds.
-----Original Message-----
From owner-spridgets at autox.team.net [mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of John.Deikis@med.va.gov
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:28 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Was: Engine pull Now: Engine put-back
I agree. Do not confuse doing a clutch at the track with pleasure in the
privacy of your own garage.
When with your mistress, take your time-- you never know when the wife will
put you to painting the front porch.
But like teeth, taking them out is a lot faster than getting them back in.
I think the engine re-install benfits most from previous experience with the
job. There are all sorts of tricks for getting a flacid driveshaft stub
into the tail-end of somebody's ribcase. Some of them even leave you with
all five fingers intact.
Now, a question: There has got to be some way to simplify the
re-attachment of ther radiator to the shrouding on the Spridget. I want to
devise a way to pull that crap off and put it back on in a away that does
not require a monkey-fingered double-jointed mystic trying to thread little
bolts into wiggling so-called "captive" nuts. It seems to take me as long to
"button things up" as it does to drop the motor back in.
Any ideas from you racers out there? Originality is not a priority.
JohnD
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