Day 124

Mounted the motor today!

We picked up an engine hoist and assembled it this morning. Then we unboxed the motor, strapped onto it, lifted it and aligned it to the motor mount on the firewall.

Only hiccup we encountered was once we had three of the four bolts in place, the fourth one we found that the self locking nut that had been installed from the factory had been stripped out with the wrong threaded bolt when it was boxed. So we had to remove the motor that we had already fought to get aligned once and drill the nut off.

After that was taken care of we re-mounted the motor. Thankfully we were still able to get a nut on that one bolt, and just barely got a wrench on it so that we could properly torque it.

Once the motor and the rubber mounts all sat satisfactorily we properly torqued all four bolts.