Re: Spider engine in car rebuild-LONG

[Formeister@domain.elided]

>  From: "Dave M." <doc1590@domain.elided>
>  Subject: Spider engine in car rebuild-LONG
>  
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>  Note: If you need to remove all the rods, then you
>  will need to drop the entire pan and that's a real
>  pain without a lift and there are a couple tricks to
>  that too.  We can change a head gasket quicker than
>  the pan.
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In order to make removal of my Alfetta oil pan on a 1750 block easier I 
finally drilled and tapped the block to accept the next size larger socket 
head bolts.  Now it's a simple matter to use a "wobble" (don't know the 
correct name offhand) allen wrench to undo the bolts in about ten minutes.  
This was a necessity in my case as before that I had to remove the engine to 
drop the pan.

Regards,

Frank Formeister,
1750 Alfa-Healey

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