Kentvillehound said:
a) For those of you who "pull the crank," I assume you have your own engine hoist? Do you then mount the engine on a four-bolt engine stand?
I do now, but I've done it in the past using only a
"Come-a-long" and a convenient overhead beam in the garage. Learned the hard way to jam a 2x4 between joist and floor on either side of the car.
But then a "friend" talked me into going halves with him on one of
these which I like a lot better. And since he convienently forgot to ever pay his half, it's all mine now. BTW, the "non-folding" version actually stores in less space than the folding one, after removing 5 bolts.
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(do you always pull the engine and transmission together?)[/QUOTE]Yup. Unless I just want the transmission out.
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b) How tricky are those Figure 8 gaskets, and is it easy to make a mess using Wellseal and jamming those liners back down--they look like a tight fit?[/QUOTE]The gaskets are easy, just clean the seats in the block good, goop the gaskets up with your favorite gunk and lay them in. Then drive the liners in one at a time. The gasket should just lay there, as it's not actually a tight fit against the spigot of the liner.<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]c) Why use a sealer on head bolts? I've never heard of that before.[/QUOTE]I don't.<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]d) How does that rear seal mandrell work again? That drawing leaves me confused.[/QUOTE]The halves of the aluminum seal need to be positioned so they almost, but not quite, touch the crankshaft scroll. You clamp the mandrel into the rear main bearing (without the bearing inserts) instead of the crankshaft, and it's just enough larger than the crank scroll to center the seal with the proper clearance.
Or, according to Hardy, you can wrap thread around the crankshaft itself (on both the scroll and the rear main bearing journal) to accomplish the same thing.<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]e) Finally, a bit off the topic: I need to replace my engine mounts. Are my eyes deceiving me, or do I see little nub-like pegs on the bottom of each of the two front engine plate feet that dig down into the rubber engine mounts?[/QUOTE]Not that I've ever noticed. In fact, the engine plate does not touch the rubber, there is a steel plate bonded to the rubber that the front plate gets bolted to. Perhaps your mounts are separated and you are looking at the upper plate of the mount ?