[Spridgets] Installing engines

[Glen Byrns]

Lower the engine into the bay, mate up the pilot shaft and the engine, lower 
it halfway towards the final position, THEN fit on the mounts.  Easy that 
way.

Glen


> All right.  What is the magic word for getting an engine into a Spridget 
> when the engine mounts, etc. are clearly wider than the available space? 
> We have grunted the requisite number of grunts.  We have use more than 
> enough profanity for several engine swaps, some of it ordinary, some 
> relatively creative.  And still, it does not shrink.  The manual says (too 
> late, as manuals usually do) to offer the engine to the transmission with 
> the motor mounts in place.  Is that the magic?
>
> Michael Rowe
> Long Island, NY