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So, the tasks for my week off next week include:

Replace engine
Replace gearbox
Replace clutch (just because I'm doing the engine and gearbox)

Rebush pedals
Redo Brakes
Redo M/C.
Redo Prop.

Any anticipated horrors???

Nikki

What will you be doing from Wednesday onwards?
Ian.

Don't forget to eat occasionally!

So, the tasks for my week off next week include:

Replace engine
Replace gearbox
Replace clutch (just because I'm doing the engine and gearbox)

Rebush pedals
Redo Brakes
Redo M/C.
Redo Prop.

Any anticipated horrors???

Some of us managed that in a week, on top of a full time job ;-)
but yes, eating and sleeping were not high on the priority list
I would also recommend not fitting the engine and box on your own without lifting equipment but it can be done if your!

She'll have the engine lift OK, if we can figure a way of getting it there - should've loaded it up into Kate's Rebecca yesterday, darn it...

One day I'll post pictures of how I got the engine in single handed without lifting equipment. It really is amusing - neccessity is definately the mother of all invention

I'm intrigued - here, I have to lay wooden runners on the gravel for the crane to roll on

Multiphonikks wrote:So, the tasks for my week off next week include:

Replace engine
Replace gearbox
Replace clutch (just because I'm doing the engine and gearbox)

Rebush pedals
Redo Brakes
Redo M/C.
Redo Prop.

Any anticipated horrors???

Nikki

Well, I should be doing the first 3 items this weekend if I can get all the bits together. Just make sure you torque everything up. It's much easier to line up the engine and 'box if you do them out of the car. I'll be doing that also as I'm replacing both too.

rebushing of the pedals is fun. Have you ordered a new pedal shaft? as most of the time (if they are bad) it's the shaft that's worn as well as the bushes. You can grind the clutch pedal off the end and weld a new shaft on. Fitting the bushes is fun too, as is removing the old ones. I used a socket (backwards) as a drift for the new bushes.

Prop is easy, just 4 bolts.

Are you planning on removing the torsion bar to get at the M/C? It's really not that difficult, but make sure you mark the positions on the front wishbone leg and rear adjuster arm before you remove the bar.

Redo brakes? what are you doing exactly?

Cam wrote:
It's much easier to line up the engine and 'box if you do them out of the car.

Told you so...

Oh and also do everything sequentially. In other words get the engine/clutch/box/prop done then test the car, then proceed to the next job, test and move one. Otherwise you might end up with a non-working car with bits all over the place! Plus you don't want to run out of time!

It's much easier to line up the engine and 'box if you do them out of the car.

I've never had much trouble to get the engine back onto a fitted gearbox (apart from having to shift the engine). I had to do that 2 weeks ago as there was no way I could handle both together on my own - with a few minutes huffing and a few turns of the starting handle they just slid together.
Getting the gearbox onto a fitted engine - now that can take a lot more cursing

With them assembled out of the car you're going to save 10 or 15 minutes as ou have better access to all the bolts and can just wizz them in with a socket set.

I'd expect you need the gearbox crossmember removed to get fitted if you've assembled them off the car. if you do them seperately you can avoid removing it (seperately you are better off with the crossmember fitted, giving the box something to sit on)

Ray, if you have the engine and box already out of the car, is there any point in putting them back in separately? Also, lining up the much lighter gearbox onto the engine IS easier than the other way round. It's not the end of the world, but it IS easier. Especially if you have changed the clutch and the plate might not be perfectly centred.

Getting the gearbox onto a fitted engine - now that can take a lot more cursing

Yes, lots of Anglo Saxon words and aching arms (like doing a bench press at an angle).

Remove the cross member? I've NEVER had to - admittedly all the ones I've done have been LCVs though.

Easy enough to remove/fit engine without a crane - just lift it in by hand, without the head on ! Much easier than removing/fitting a gearbox from below - which is why I suggested a while back removing the engine to fix a clutch.
But that's a load of work planned for a week - hope it goes well !

Nikki, very simple fix, involves a weeks holiday not work. Buy a cheap banger (not Minor) to tide you over until Hebe comes in for her makeover. Collect rejuvinated Hebe, sell banger,hey presto no money wasted on bits that will be taken out again, and a weeks holiday into the bargain.

Jonathon, I'm seriously thinking it - I also need to talk to you on other matters. I have some... *news*...

*the eagle is preparing to land...*

Did the gearbox on mine not long back. Slid straight on first time, but wouldn't quite mate up.

Took me ages to spot that the locating peg dooberry was still in my engine block, and that the 'new' gearbox also had one . . .

Took the 'box off again, took out the peg, and then spent the next hour getting the gearbox back on. Why is it always easy the time you do something wrong?

I still haven't ordered any parts yet. It's one of those hellish moments. I've been here before, but I have a horrid question to ask myself.

Do I get another minor?

Hebe's bodwork needs some work. Putting in that much work and money (priced up my list at ESM and stopped at £590 odd) into a car which needs some new structural bits when I don't have the welding skills or the space to have another car sucks.

Ideally, I'd get another minor and put hebe in the garage. I'd work on her and slowly restore her. (Ideally) but I don't think we have the space for three cars. See, we have one garage, and one parking space.

This really sucks

Am I a bad person if I have to let her go?

*And please, no male comments about women getting too attached to things!*

Multiphonikks wrote:
Am I a bad person if I have to let her go?

*And please, no male comments about women getting too attached to things!*

1) Yes! She must be saved

2) I think you're in the wrong place for Males being sarcy about people being attached to their cars...

I dunno how you're going to do it, but all the help I can give is ready and waiting - I'm sure that goes for Kate and Guy too. It can't be beyond the realms of possibility to get a new engine in her and do the vital body work while saving up for the bells and whistles - can it?