Re: 'S' Type (and Older Saloon) Owners

[glite@eos.net]

MARTIN HALFORD wrote:
> Lifting the engine out - I gather the best way is engine gearbox and overdrive
> all in one.  Are the two 'bridges'  between the cam housings intended as lifting
> points.  My old Autopress manual is a bit vague (anyone recommend a better
> manual ?).  I assume that as the engine is lifted, the car has to be rolled
> backwards to allow the gearbox and overdrive to follow the engine out of the
> engine compartment ?
> 
> Anyone going to a Jaguar spares day advertised in Farnham next Sunday ?

Martin:

I have read that the purpose of the bridges is to lift the engine.  I
have not used the method, instead making a plate which has the same four
hole pattern as the last four studs in the head.  An additional hole is
for a ring to which you attach the crane. 

It seems to me that lowering the engine (after removing the front
suspension) is a better way to remove the same.  Took me one day on my
’65 Mk2 then only four hours on a second ’63 Mk2.   Besides having that
engine and tranny up four and a half feet in the air scares me a bit.  
The _drop the engine_ method was in Practical Classics and later a
reprint for rebuilding a Mk2 was also published by them. 
 
I’m in Cincinnati, Ohio so I will not make it to Farnham,  however, I
will be in London in Mid June.      Any autojumbles (if that’s the right
term for what we call flea markets here, i.e., selling car parts your
wife has threaten to throw out or list in the divorce petition) 
scheduled in the area at that time?  

george leicht
glite@eos.net
‘63Mk2, 65Mk2, TR6, TR3,  (they seem to breed in the back yard)

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