Just wanted to update that I got the transmission back in. The trick was
suspending a rope "cradle" from one of the beams in my garage to bear the
weight of the front end of the tranny as I guided the little bugger home.
This seemed to work better then trying to use my wheeled hydraulic jack to
support the tranny. It is a strategy I will definitely use if I need to
undertake this job in the future.
Thanks for all the help and especially for the overwhelming opinion that
patience is the main ingredient in accomplishing this task. Knowing this
made the W.H.I.M.'s (What Have I Missed) much less likely to cause me to
force something.Everything is back together now and I am enjoying a much
deserved Ale.
Jim Cullen
1974 Spitfire
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:59 AM
Subject: [Spits] Transmission installation
Looking for a little advice here. I am in the process of installing my
transmission back into my spitfire. I did this
once before, but that was 12 years ago, and my memory on how smoothly it
went in is a bit hazy. My question is this....
I have the transmission back in place (sort of) with the transmission on
the guide dowel (as well as the three engine
studs on top of the bell housing. The problem is I can't really get the
bell housing of the transmission to mate
uniformly around the engine. On the top area the bell housing is flush to
the engine, on the sides it is about 1/3 of an
inch out, and on the bottom closer to 3/4 of an inch. Last night as I was
doing this I contemplated bolting in the
surrounding bolts to see if this would flush up the bell housing to the
engine. However, previous, applications of
"Irish Persuasion" have lead to some unfortunate results in other
applications with my Spit. So, at about 10 pm last
night I decided to sleep on the issue and perhaps query the list. Should I
back out the transmission and make another
attempt at mating the transmission so that the bellhousing is completely
flush around the circumference of the engine
prior to tightening any bolts? Or, is the fact that the bellhousing is
flush to the top of the engine good enough to
tighten down the surrounding bolts/nuts?
Thanks,
Jim Cullen
74 Spitfire
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