Wednesday, March 10, 2004
The swap
A work colleague kindly agreed to help swap the engines. But first make a note that the white tagged ignition pickup lead goes to the transducer for the front cylinder. Wonder if this is true for all Morinis?
By now I'd got all the engine mounting bolts loose and removed all but a few essentials. It is obvious that once the front engine plates are removed the engine should be pulled forwards from the rear mounts. This was helped by having a few slips of MDF on the frame lower rails to take the weight.
But then it was stuck...it took a few minutes to realise that if the engine was rotated clockwise 90 degrees so that the front cylinder moved out of the right hand side of the frame it came out readily.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could just take the weight of the engine myself.
We had 2 engines to remove but only 1 to refit. Insert rear cylinder from right, twist anticlockwise and slide back into mountings. Easy!
A work colleague kindly agreed to help swap the engines. But first make a note that the white tagged ignition pickup lead goes to the transducer for the front cylinder. Wonder if this is true for all Morinis?
By now I'd got all the engine mounting bolts loose and removed all but a few essentials. It is obvious that once the front engine plates are removed the engine should be pulled forwards from the rear mounts. This was helped by having a few slips of MDF on the frame lower rails to take the weight.
But then it was stuck...it took a few minutes to realise that if the engine was rotated clockwise 90 degrees so that the front cylinder moved out of the right hand side of the frame it came out readily.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could just take the weight of the engine myself.
We had 2 engines to remove but only 1 to refit. Insert rear cylinder from right, twist anticlockwise and slide back into mountings. Easy!
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