Hey Martin, good to see you back on list. regards Don ----- Original Message ----- From: martin webster To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 7:31 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] almost ready to pull the engine
Hi all, Worked in a lite commercial workshop at one time as a tortally blind man.have lot of stories about that, but my boss ofended me. people don't seem to realalize that technology exists for everybody and not just for sighted people particularly now a days, and even before this technology we have to day, there was all ways a way. a mark is a mark, and anything can be used as a ruler whether you can see it or not. By this I mean tactile marks can be made on anythihng, you do not need a talking tape measure to judge an arbitary distance. If you are an engineer, like myself you might need to know exact measurements and there are many ways round that. just becareful in dismantling machinery. By this I mean if you have to pull cables off, then tie something round them that you can recognize, which you can create a key with, do what ever it takes. take notes if you have to, and that's what I have to say about this. Please keep fingers out of moving machinery to. two of my workmates had had their fingers removed, and they were sighted - not in the workshop I worked in but still, itt's all ways a good plan to keep fingers whether your sighted or blind, you never know what they may be needed for, and when next time you may be using them. By the way I am only 39, and very individualistic, I have done top end over hauls, bottom end over hauls, changed steering boxes and gear boxes, replaced surspension, traced eletrical faults, made plates and rivitted them in place for the meg welder. and built my own inspection pits with intersepter tanks for drainage. Once I pushed a transit luton, single handed, as a totally blind man over the inspection pit - by feeling the wheels, and moving the thing six inches at a time over the inspection pit to have the driver turn up and said "We need the phiacal, so do you mind, i'm sorry martin". - I think I told him, to f.....f., this is just how things go, well people really don't understand just how hard that was for a totally blind person to do. I don't meann telling himn to f.....f but pushing the phicle over the inspection pit is the point i am trying to make. I quite liked telling him to f...o.f. Well, I think i've said enough for today. martin webster From the UK. robert moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Larry when you say rear mount are you talking about where the rear of the trans bolts to the center of the cross member? I was just out at the Jimmy loosening the motor mounts and I looked under there and yes the cross member does in fact sit up on top or the frame. I can't see how it would go any where if I simply pre loosened the 2 nuts and bolts on either side and left them in place until time to finnish the job. Also just wondering. Once I get all the wires, hoses, cables, linkages, etc etc etc out of the way. is there any where else the motor is bolted in besides the 2 motor mounts and the tranny cross member. Keep in mind this is just a 2 wheel drive. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Stansifer Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] almost ready to pull the engine If memory serves you are correct about the cross member. Try putting a couple of blocks under the trans to take some of the strain off of the rear mount and then pull the entire cross member. The ideal set up would be to use a hydraulic jack you can leave under their until time to pull the motor. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of robert moore Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 2:48 PM To: Blind Handyman Subject: [BlindHandyMan] almost ready to pull the engine Well this project has not been very quick but then again I don't even know what I am going to do with the engine so I am not in any hurry. Only reason I am even pulling it is because it is an old Jimmy that I am cannibalizing for my s dime and I have always wanted to at least be able to say that I pulled an engine myself with little or no help. Well all that is left to do as far as I can tell is to drain the oil and tranny fluid, drop the tranny support, remove the motor mount bolts and disconnect the shift linkage. So the only help I will need is plucking it out with a cherry picker. Since I don't need the heat or the light I will go out tonight and work on some of that. Probably the last thing I will do is remove the tranny support because I don't know when I will get the cherry picker and a friend out here to finish up and I would just asoon it not hang there too long unless any of you guys that know how this stuff works thinks it would not matter. Just one last question. Since it is not going any where until after I pull the motor, would it be safe to get under there and un bolt the tranny support so that I won't have to bother with that on the day we pull the engine? It looks like the support is sitting on top of the frame or at least some type of steel rail any way. PS So, why do I use the words engine and notor interchangably? Well no reason at all I suppose thecnically an engine uses fuel and a motor is electric. Not really sure. 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