Bending stuff the easy way.

Self appointed techno has been bending stuff this evening.

I needed an extra 6mm clearance under the handbrake area to enable the prop to be fitted without dropping the rear gearbox mount, thats after settling on a final engine location.

The Ford prop slides into the gearbox rear extension not bolts on as per triumph box..So you need to be able to slip her in.

I needed to raise the back of the box 5mm where it sits over the crossmember, to stop the rear extension rattling on the crossmember or risk of rattles. Having left this gap the prop wouldnt go on...

I didn't want to cut out and raise this area for the sake of a few mm...

So my solution was to jack the back of the car up...Place a jack under the handbrake area of the tub and repeatedly lower the car onto the jack, so the whole weight of the car is sat under the handbrake area. With help of several different shaped objects sat on the jack, alot of creaking and ticking noises, the prop now fits and you'd be unaware this area has been adjusted :)

I just need to cut off the handbrake mount and move it towards the passenger as the already shortened handbrake lever fouls the gearstick...

I do intend to shorten the gear stick mech, but handbrake lever will still sit on the gearbox tunnel so needs moving anyways...

Engines needs to come out now. Headgasket, possibly reface head, port head a bit, buy and fit cams, time cams, sort trigger system on flywheel, add clutch slave, shorten gear mechanism on box, sort custom made oil take off block, replace bottomend gaskets, baffle sump, fit remote filter, sort exhaust piping. Engine should run then...Leaving prop shortening, bulkhead, gearbox tunnel.