Had the engine sat on the floor at the end of the last blog post. Not the best for working on it, especially with the sump off as one slip would have it landing on the crank and potentially buggering up something serious. So today i was off to Machine Mart with strict instructions ONLY to buy an engine stand. Almost managed it too!
Once back i had to shed some weight off the V8 to make it stable on the stand (max weight 250kg). First off came the inlet manifold. Amazingly all of the loom is associated only with the inlet, so once its off, the rest of the block is exactly as a carb block would be!
Inlet trumpets look pretty meaty once off too:
once off i could get the remaining block up on the stand, flipped, sump face cleaned and covered:
Covering the crank fairly essential with all the grinding and dust going on about in the workshop, so to do my bit for the planet, i decided to do a touch of recycling:
Thats about it for the engine side of the game for today. Need to chop about the sump tomorrow and make some fabricated panels for it. On the engine bay side, i got the old mounts that were deemed unnnecessary chopped and off:
...which frees up a bit more space in there. On the downside i did managed to plough the grinder straight through the front O/S brake line. To stave off my fury, i do conceed that it looked a bit corroded, so ive probably saved myself a bit of hassle by forcing myself to change it now!
My other engine bay plans included removing the steering rack. At the moment i cant see where exactly i am moving it too, but as long as its out the way for fitting the engine, i ca work out the relocation at a later date:
Simon also surfaced at the garage today, so it was a bit more exciting than my usual banter free work efforts!
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