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Removable subframe?
interestedparty - 1/6/02 at 08:08 PM

My driving around car is a TR7V8, and from time to time I take the engine out. The easy way to do this is to undo the subframe on which the engine etc is mounted, and lift the body off the engine essembly. On a Locost the G tubes and the engine mounts would prevent this. Has anybody experimented with constructing a removable subframe instead? Even if nobody has, I am very tempted to have a go at it unless anybody has a beter idea?
John


interestedparty - 2/6/02 at 08:31 PM

Come on, 27 views and no-one's got so much as an opinion?
So how do you guys take your engines out?
John


chrisg - 2/6/02 at 08:43 PM

Allright John,

I'll do my best!

I can take my pinto out from underneath by removing the engine mountings (sierra), undoing the gearbox/engine bolts and dropping it down on a trolley jack, I think a removable frame *might* be an unecessary complication but each to his own!

Cheers

Chris


Jon Ison - 2/6/02 at 09:14 PM

lift it straight up n out, H style mono rail in garage makes life easy.......anyone want one ? if the price is rite as they say