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Old 11-30-2019, 03:25 PM   #348
John V
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Location: Glenwood, MD
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Finally found some time to do things.

Cut a hole in the transmission tunnel to accommodate the shifter housing and enable the driveline angles to work out correctly. I'll fill this in later.



Made a new crossmember for the gearbox.



Modified the driver's side engine mount. I had originally tilted the motor a little bit to the passenger's side to clear the steering rack. I fixed that issue so I wanted to level the engine so the gearbox was level. It also gave me a little more clearance between the top of the gearbox and the tunnel. I just sliced the bottom off of the mount, then cut a couple new pieces of metal to fill in what was missing. This mount also was always a little close to the oil cooler lines coming off of the engine, and I had notched it in a really ugly way. So I cleaned that up and made it look nicer.





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