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Okay, I have a problem I have not read about before and need some help. Must admit on this one I am a little embarrassed to ask.
My car is at the body shop for panel fitting and bodywork. Engine in the car but without intake and carbs. The bonnet fits nicely on the car. I am going to use HD8 carbs on my BT7 and folks who have done that before have told me I need to cut away a little of the diagonal brace that runs from the firewall to the frame so as to avoid the bottom of the rear carb hitting the brace. Makes sense, since on BJ8s the diagonal does have a factory modification to do just the same thing.
Well, when I fit the intake manifold and carbs I discovered that my engine is sitting up too high in the engine compartment! If I put a straight edge across the shroud where the oil cap is on the rocker cover I have about 1/2" from the center of the cap to the botom of the straight edge, when I believe that measurement should be at least 1 1/4." So my engine is about 3/4" to high causing the top of the dashpot to hit the inside of the bonnet and there is no way I could install the front air cleaner.
I am using new rubber pads on my original engine mounts, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why the engine is sitting high. I am using a Smitty-Toyota gearbox and at first I thought that perhaps the bracket was tilting the motor to the rear, but I rejected that notion because there are so many folks out there with the same conversion and I have never heard anyone mention this as a problem.
Is it possible to install the mounts incorrectly? Is there an adjustment in the mounts that I am not seeing? I think the mounts are the same for all 6 cylinder cars.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I am stumped, but I am also confident that I must just be missing something silly. Help!
Lin
1960 BT7 in restoration
1959 Bugeye
My car is at the body shop for panel fitting and bodywork. Engine in the car but without intake and carbs. The bonnet fits nicely on the car. I am going to use HD8 carbs on my BT7 and folks who have done that before have told me I need to cut away a little of the diagonal brace that runs from the firewall to the frame so as to avoid the bottom of the rear carb hitting the brace. Makes sense, since on BJ8s the diagonal does have a factory modification to do just the same thing.
Well, when I fit the intake manifold and carbs I discovered that my engine is sitting up too high in the engine compartment! If I put a straight edge across the shroud where the oil cap is on the rocker cover I have about 1/2" from the center of the cap to the botom of the straight edge, when I believe that measurement should be at least 1 1/4." So my engine is about 3/4" to high causing the top of the dashpot to hit the inside of the bonnet and there is no way I could install the front air cleaner.
I am using new rubber pads on my original engine mounts, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why the engine is sitting high. I am using a Smitty-Toyota gearbox and at first I thought that perhaps the bracket was tilting the motor to the rear, but I rejected that notion because there are so many folks out there with the same conversion and I have never heard anyone mention this as a problem.
Is it possible to install the mounts incorrectly? Is there an adjustment in the mounts that I am not seeing? I think the mounts are the same for all 6 cylinder cars.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I am stumped, but I am also confident that I must just be missing something silly. Help!
Lin
1960 BT7 in restoration
1959 Bugeye
