>> MGA's are a different story. It took hours and a complete
>> lexicon of swear words, and multiple beers to get the #@%&* engine
>> back in the #$@! car.
>*** The MGA factory workshop manual says that the only correct
>way to R&R the engine is as a unit with the transmission.
It also says to remove the floorboards first. Doing a R&R on the
floorboards is harder than mating the engine with the gearbox in the car!
>And I've never had any particular problem
>getting the transmission input shaft into the clutch, as long as I
>watched the angle of the shaft.
I was using a chain. Had I had one of the devices to adjust the
engine's tilt, I too would have had to use less explitives!
The real fun is doing an R&R on an MGA twin cam engine.
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