okay then....the trans xmember is positioned right, but doesnt bolt up. i will lower the engine xmember to hopefully get it right.

baz i dont have any other holes drilled cause its still had the orginal engine. the play that would be required to get a bolt in is so tiny, so i would tend to think that if i dropped the engine then it would line up. its not like ive got the think upsidedown. like i had the engine xmember

poor guy and his datto. i thought i saw that car in fast fours.

so does that mean that autos are different to manual floor pan and trans tunnel????

graham

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Graham, do you have the engine mounts the correct way around?

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hey whoa there big fella!

just purely asking a question there. an emoticon might have helped i guess.

i'm just wondering if the 1600 tunnel is a different size than the manual. no doubt the mountings are different, but it's the size i'm wondering about.

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i may just clear this up abit i am starting to sound like a complete idiot....the engine mount and xmember bugger up was when i was nutting it out with my wife, she had one idea and i had another. (mine was right) i cleared it up with baz. so thats the engine mount thing out of the way.

the trans xmember. i am just trying to fit the trans xmember. by sight the mounts and brackets line up and i have done a test but the xmember didnt bolt up. so thats why i am just trying to seek info on the xmember.




this is where the bolts go for the first four.......right and that is the left hand side right..........



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mate u really have to make sure the engine mounts are loose in the front crossmember slots to save yourself a lot of time imo. due to the length of the whole motor box assesmbly a few mmm movement at the engine is a cm at the gearbox.

This means you fighting a battle to get it lined up. if u have loose engine mounts you can get under there with gearbox x member loosely bolted to gbox and shake it all around till it lines up. then once located (all threads started) u can recheck engine mount positon (centre of slots) and tighten it all up together.

mental note: Unweld diff.

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[quote="Graham"]i may just clear this up abit i am starting to sound like a complete idiot....the engine mount and xmember bugger up was when i was nutting it out with my wife, she had one idea and i had another. (mine was right) i cleared it up with baz. so thats the engine mount thing out of the way.

the trans xmember. i am just trying to fit the trans xmember. by sight the mounts and brackets line up and i have done a test but the xmember didnt bolt up. so thats why i am just trying to seek info on the xmember.




this is where the bolts go for the first four.......right and that is the left hand side right..........

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That should be right for a manual trans shell.
post a pic of the interior side, where the caged nuts are.
as the angle of your shot makes it difficult to reference position.
cheers.

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that is the inside baz is there any other pics you would like????thats the left hand side too

i havent droped the engine xmember yet

graham

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