Boy am I ever frustrated.
And it's all my fault. I'm an artist
I sit in front of a computer
all day long. I don't have a lot of upper body strength. The most
strenuous thing I do in terms of recreation is fly fishing. (sarcasm
intended) I don't work out or exercise at all. So here I am, a
180-pound weakling, trying to install the freshly rebuilt gearbox
into my TR6 by myself. I guess I can feel fortunate that it's a
non-OD 'box.
I tried building a neat little support stand with casters that was
intended to allow me to accurately align the 'box while the stand
took the weight. The stand has adjustable height front and rear
(independently) so I could adjust the 'angle of attack.' It was a
brilliant idea. Too bad it didn't work! Mostly, I think it doesn't
work because of the drop arm sticking out of the side of the
bellhousing, which interferes with the floorpan and generally screws
up the whole works.
I reverted today to enlisting the help of a neighbor, tossed out my
neat little stand, and between the two of us we still couldn't get
the 'box aligned. So I'm back at square one. I've done this before,
although never by myself. The last time I had to do this a neighbor
helped me and we nailed it right off the bat. The input shaft went
right in, took all of 5 minutes. In the past, my dad and I have done
it and gotten it to go in after some struggling.
Basically, I'm just venting but if anyone has any other tricks to
help align the input shaft and make this easier for a 180-pound
weakling to do by himself, I'd really like to hear your ideas! Keep
in mind that the clutch hasn't been disturbed so this isn't an issue
of aligning the clutch disk.
Thanks as always.
--
Pete Chadwell
1973 TR6
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