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Cant get the engine to go the last 2"

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo....you really don't want to do that....those bad boys are hard to get in when they're shot & even harder when they're new!
 
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo....you really don't want to do that....those bad boys are hard to get in when they're shot & even harder when they're new!

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nuts!
 
So far as the arachnid problem goes.......I think that was an appropriate, measured response.

I was under a car, in the yard one time, when a mouse ran across my chest and into the armpit of my jacket.

Holy screaming willies......After I got out from under the car & removed the frightened creature, I looked around to make sure no one saw me. Not a good place to loose respect.

One guy I know caught his shoe on fire while torching off a part....Every time he comes in, the owner's son & his fetcher buddies hop around on one foot and yell.
He will never live it down.
 
hehhehe - screamed like a little girl did'n ya? Mice touching body parts are not fun. I did a year as a pest control guy... I understand. I actually cried one time when a snake found it's way up my pantleg while I was in the crawlspace under a house doing a termite job.
 
ok, dammit, here i am almost 24 hours later and no where closer to solving this problem! i can get the tranny upto the ring gear and that is it!!! not a bloody f-ing milimeter farther.
 
all i can think of is to take a grinder to the nose of the input shaft, that way the stupid piece of **** will go on the goddamn hole. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
who ever said it wasn't getting past the clutch was right, there was a bur on the clutch and i was never getting the input shaft into the clutch...24 hours of work later...should have slid the clutch on the input shaft before i installed it on the engine.
 
That does remind me of a problem I had with a new input shaft one time.
I just bought a close ratio set-up for an MGA tranny.

The new 23 spline shaft was a very tight fit on the clutch disk.
I had to use an old clutch & some mildly abrasive paste to polish the splines so the new clutch would slide.

Also, I had problems with the 3 edges of the pressure plate (where the torque straps connect) rubbing on the bell housing. My solution was to machine off about 1/8" of material. But then I had to have it rebalanced.

So much for quality control on replacement parts.
 
Oh, pre fit everything old and most of what is new. If a prob can arise it will.

Grats, you makeing progress.
 
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Oh, pre fit everything old and most of what is new. If a prob can arise it will.

Grats, you makeing progress.

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tell that to my back...
 
I made the mistake of *assuming* you'd done that. Ever so sorry for the lack of thoroughness as regards a step-by-step. ...I shoulda asked.

*Advil*
 
Doc, you should be ashamed of your self, inclomplete instructions. You must think you are a real Doctor. hehehe
 
Yeah, I'm hangdog over it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Live and learn.
 
dont sweat it, i should have know better...never ever assume that new parts are going to fit.

the worste part was that it took me about 5 minutes to make it all better...
 
*oof* I just love when it takes me 5 minutes to finx a problem that I've been racking my brains over for hours.... NOT! Glad to see you got it all together finally. I'll have a coffee in your honor this morning. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Doc, advil? Not "vitamin M"? hmmmm... or was Motrin not invented when you were in the military? While I was in the Marines, Motrin was the Corpsman's wonder drug... Vitamin M is what we came to know it as...
 
Advil, Motrin...it's all ibuprofen 200mg in the over-the-counter variety. I live on it..

Your resident pharmacist....
 
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