Hi, Monday as I was putting my transmission back in the Spit and replacing the front engine mounts. I made use of a set of gear wrenches - combination wrenches with the box end being a ratchet. They are pretty handy or nuts or bolts that you can't get a socket onto.
There I was, tightening the front engine mounts just about got it tight when I thought I would switch to a regular box end wrench as I am not sure they will stand up well to the torque. Anyway, I went to pull the wrench off and couldn't. The stud on the engine mount had been pulled through the nut far enough that there was not enough room to between the stud and the engine block to get the wrench out. :-( The wrenches have to be flipped over to reverse the action, so there was no way to use the same wrench to loosen the nut. I had to get an open end wrench and squeeze it in to loosen the nut - not much fun. As a side note, the local paper (Lawrence, KS ) has started a garage page. On our last club outing one of our members asked if he could submit a short blurb about me, so he took some pictures. They ended up running it. It is now on there web site http://www.lawrence.com/features/racing/garage02/brit/brit.html There is even a short video of my wife's TR250. If she knew he was shooting, she would have gone faster. Thanks, Roger Elliott /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
