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Here's a question for the combined group...I usually "dress" the engine compartment before I install the engine itself (i.e., wiring, plumbing, etc.)...Janel's installing her engine first...how do you guys do it?

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Same here; I run all hardlines and any wiring that needs to be fished around/under the engine.
 
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Engine and transmission went in to check 'fit.'

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Chuck knows what he's doing, and if he doesn't, John is more than capable of building a car. Don't sweat it guys, I'm not. If the paint gets dinged, hey, our painter's our friend, we get it fixed. It's not like it's not going to get dinged the first time we drive it anyway. This is a driver, not a garage queen. Dings are the least of my worries.
 
Usually with a full resto it's fit all ancillaries (wiring and plumbing) before the engine's slotted in. This time (and it's MY car) I left the engine in and worked around it. When it comes out next time for whatever reason I'll have more dress-up and painting to do.
 
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Usually with a full resto it's fit all ancillaries (wiring and plumbing) before the engine's slotted in.

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That's what I'm doing... lots easier to do the work. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif

...and I get to put off spending big money on the engine and its internals a little longer.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
So you guys are saying it's rather like putting your BVDs on after your britches?
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If I were a betting woman, I'd bet the engine and transmission are out right now while Chuck works on other bits.

Don't fret. Don't sweat. This car is going to turn out just fine.
 
No doubt of that at all.
 
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"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and Cauldron bubble."

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Yeah, no doubt - but we've still gotta stir ya up a bit, Janel! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
Can't stir me up Tony. I'm cool like that now that the paint job is done on the car. If the bits get ordered and here in time to have the car ready for Gatlinburg, good. If not, I take Emma and we finish the car up when we get back.

It's all downhill since the paintjob.
 
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It's all downhill since the paintjob.

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hehehehehe
 
It took 4 months to pick a greay for cripssake. A GREAY! NOTHING else we do to that car, individually or collectively, will take 4 months. Not one thing, not the entire thing.

So you can rattle my chain all you guys want. Just DO NOT call it shiny primer.
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*decides against color comments*
 
Janel,

I'm sure Chuck has the reassembly order in place but thought I'd mention one thing: If the engine comes back out, replace the heater box. It is a bear of a job, no matter what and 10 times easier standing in the empty engine bay than the backbreaking lean over the fender. Trust me here. fwiw

Paul
 
Tony,

Where did you hear that the crank pully should be black? I thought the whole engine assembly was painted in unison in a "rather slapdash manner".

Paul--still a newbie--Hanley
 
Birdie,..WOW!!!

It looks fantastic /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I'm very excited for you.

I love the color /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

But all those primer remarks have been making me think of a line from "Vacation"....."I don't know why they call it Hamburger "Helper",..it's just fine on its own" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

OK,..but really,..I think she's gonna look beautiful,..I can't wait to see the whitewalls ya pick /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Paul, I've pulled a heater box OUT of that car, with an empty engine bay, and it was one somanagun to get out. I can't imagine putting it back in with stuff in the way.

I meant to go look at some pics about that engine. I figured Chuck painted everything 'red' because that's what John told him to do.

Gotta get the Clausager's out.

Ya Jerry, it is looking good!
 
Paul - I have an exploded lithograph of the MGB engine..it shows what's painted & what's not...& the crank pulley is annodized in the lithograph with its bolt left natural (but every one I've disassembled was black, both pulley & bolt), the water pump pulley is black and the oil filter housing in natural metal (but the old cannister oil filter is engine color)...everything else is engine color
 
I dont know how anyone could mistake that for shiny primer. If it was it would be much darker. Now that you ahve some contrast going in the bay the color looks very nice.

Putting the heater unit back in is about 100 times easier than it was pulling it out. Putting the engine bay back together will go a lot faster than you think.

Are you going to paint the tranny or just leave it bare?
 
Thanks Stewart.

Bare, they were originally bare metal if I remember correctly.
 
MG transmissions were bare metal - however, AH's are a different thing
 
Interesting very interesting. Mine had traces of black paint all over the surface. I wonder if it was rebuilt at somepoint.
 
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