[Shotimes] please help, possible purchase

[Leigh Smith]

SDPatt (Scott Patterson) has an excellent write-up on Shoforum for an engine
support cradle to hold that 450lb engine. In typical Pat style, he even has
engineering drawings loaded on his web site. It is made out of 2x4s or 2x6s,
& stout chain, hangs on the shock towers, and cost maybe $25. It's plenty
strong enough, It barely flexed at all when I used it.
..
On the other hand I would never get under an engine or car held up only by
some kind of hydraulic device.
Lee

Original Message ----- 
From: "James White" <greensho@crown.net>
To: "Leigh Smith" <leighsm@comcast.net>
Cc: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] please help, possible purchase


> At Monday, 20 June 2005, "Leigh Smith" <leighsm@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >snip<
> >$300 in parts and $300 in labor. Big repair job.
> >...
>
> $600?  I have paid for several clutches and have never paid less
> than $800 (in 1995 dollars).  The most recent quote was $950.
>
> I can do many things to the SHO, but I am affraid of a clutch job
> having a 700# motor hanging over my head in my driveway with the
> SHO jacked up on some sort of makeshift lift.
>
> And a clutch is the only thing the "old" 95MTX needs now...
>
> regards, Jim White - greensho@crown.net
>
> '93MTX - 285k now with broken subframe bushings
> '95MTX - 275k and needs a new clutch
> '95MTX - 176k with an overheating problem in this 95+ Summer Temps