Why can't you put the tranny in first, then install the engine? I put mine
in together exactly once, and never again. Brian
At 02:29 PM 3/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Larry,
>
>Hope you have better luck installing the next engine, It's tight too.
>Mine just cleared with the rib cage tranny. We wouldn't have been able
>to install it at all with out a engine level set-up device. Then it
>only just managed to clear the steering box and heater duct. What fun,
>hope it works out.
>
>Rick
>
>52 MGTD, 74 B, 76 XJ12C, & Puddles (60 Frogeye)
>
>Larry and Sandi Miller wrote:
>>
>> I wasn't getting anywhere with the "B" brake installation on the Bugeye so
>> thought I would attempt to install the engine with the Datsun 5 speed in my
>> other Bugeye now that I've solved the pressure plate to release bearing
>> clearance problem. Attempted to fit it in 6 times, after each attempt,
>> pulling it back out and beating on the heater box and lip some more. The
>> bottom of the box and the lip are beat to crap and there is still not enough
>> room for the damm thing to fit, keeps wedging against the bottom of the
>> heater box before the pan clears the front cross member. While taking it out
>> the 6th time, the speedometer gear box caught on something and sheared the
>> speedometer drive off at the transmission. So now comes the fun part, trying
>> to find a speedometer drive for an 82 Datsun 210 without buying the whole
>> transmission. This has convinced me of one thing, the Bugeye that I'm
>> building will get a Spridget transmission and not a 5 speed. Had I known the
>> damage required to the heater box I never would have started this.
>>
>> Thanks, just blowing off steam.
>>
>> Larry Miller
>> 59 Bugeye (Under Construction And Fighting Back)
>> 60 Bugeye (Undergoing 5 Speed Transplant And Resisting)
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