[Mgs] MGB Engine and gearbox reinstallation

[Max Heim]

Hmm, why doesn't he put the tranny in position first, then join up the
engine? That's how I read it the first time. I'm not sure you can get them
both in from underneath.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 10/4/12 12:28 PM, Paul Root at ptrmgb at gmail.com wrote:

> You'll recall that Paul has the big full length car ramps. He's got lots of
> space under the car.
> 
> I just don't know how you are going to get it forward enough to drop the tail
> of the transmission and then be able to push the whole thing back to clear the
> front cross member.
> 
> On Oct 4, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Max Heim wrote:
> 
>> Other than the bit about the mounting brackets, I 'm sure it can be done. I
>> don't know why you wouldn't have them attached -- they're pretty fiddly in
>> the confines of the engine compartment. But I'm thinking about an early B.
>> 
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>> 
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>> 
>> on 10/4/12 2:41 AM, PaulHunt73 at paulhunt73 at virginmedia.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Now I know I'm going to be told to fit the engine and gearbox as a unit.
>>> But
>>> has anyone removed the mount brackets from the engine front plate, dropped
>>> just the engine down between the chassis rails and brackets, joined the
>>> gearbox to the engine on the floor under the car, then lifted the assembly
>>> into position and refitted the mount brackets and mounts?  I realise the
>>> rear
>>> of the gearbox may need jacking up as the engine is raised into position.
>>> Space and hoist limitations make lifting the combined unit in from the top
>>> problematic.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> PaulH.