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Re: [Tigers] Engine Removal

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Subject: Re: [Tigers] Engine Removal
From: <e.coiner@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:16:17 -0400
---- Scott Hutchinson <shutchin@netjets.com> wrote: 
> Get a towing strap...
> 
> Loop it around the firewall braces...

+1 on this appproach.
>
> When you put the crossmember back on remember to jack the engine slightly to 
>un load the frame rails. I couldn't get the third bolt for the crossmember 
>into place no matter what I did. Figured there was something wrong with the 
>car. I asked on the list and bingo....

I used one of those hydraulic porta power pushers that you can get ridiculously 
cheap at Harbor freight.  I placed it between the frame rails in front of the 
engine and spread just a wee bit.  Bolts went right in.
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