The aim was to get the engine in the car and if all goes well maybe try to start it.
So first was getting it off the stand
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Yes I know it’s on the wonk but good enough to get it onto me trolley
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I took the chance to replace to the fuel filter which was easier with the engine out
While in there I noticed some surface corrosion around the inner ends of the torsion bars. Nothing major but I ground it back to metal, treated it with FE123 and then sprayed some dinitrol stonechip over the top
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Now when I put it onto the engine stand there was a sensor on the top (back) of the engine that the stand interfered with so I couldn’t replace that until now.
The bolts didn’t seem to be going in very well so I tapped them out
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One of them screwed in OK but the other one just kept turning. Sh*t. I looked at the stud
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I wasn’t sure what that silver section was. Then I looked back at the threaded hole and bits of the thread didn’t look great. I had another look at the stud and then took a Stanley knife to it
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Bugger. It had pulled out some of the thread from the hole.
Initially I thought I was going to have to tap it out to an M8 - which is doable if a little radical.
Then I measured the depth of the holes - one was 17mm and the other 18mm deep. The studs I was using were projecting 7mm into the hole, so plenty of depth there to play with. I tried a longer stud in the hole (without the bracket) and sure enough it gripped really well when it got down to the threads at the bottom.
I gave myself a couple of millimetres gap at the bottom so they wouldn’t bottom out and cut down a couple of longer studs to give me 15mm penetration into the hole. Nice.
These screwed in and held nice and tight
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