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01/15/07 – Aligning
the engine
Got
that laser level from harbor freight. They didn't have
the 16 dollar one, so I had to buy the one that came with way more
superfluous
crap:
It
was 40 bucks. Meh, whatever.1
So I
butted the end up against the crank snout. Like so:
Apparently
my "eyecrometer"2
was right on... If you look carefully you can see the
red dot right in the center of the diff flange.
Since
I know the motor is more or less in an good position,
I started mocking up TEMPORARY3
motor mounts out of some angle stock I had laying around. I will finish
these
and post pictures tomorrow.
The
bolt hole in the lower angle is actually a ball joint on
the lower control arm. The actual motor mount bolt is about 3" forward
of
that. The final finished motor mount will utilize both bolt locations
to
account for the fact that the motor is creating such a large moment on
the
crossmember.4
I may also
triangulate the motor mounts forward into the radiator support or
simply tie
into the "frame rail". Either option will help stiffen the front end
up.
Aligning the motor was
fairly easy. I had
to pry it around a little bit, but it
was shocking how close to perfect it was just by setting it in the
chassis the
day before. My
plans for the motor mount
at this point were bad. But
at that
point I hadn’t put too much thought into it…
The names of these images are kevinwig (because I had
taken pictures of
Layzie in a wig the day before)
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(1)
I
think I lost this as well…
(2)
Love
that term
(3)
Despite
being bolded and capped, I received a
flood of comments about how these mounts wouldn’t
hold… I
even went into detail in the next paragraph
about my plans, but no one ever reads anything… Are you
reading this?
(4)
This
would have been a bad idea.
(5)
I
did not end up doing this…
