> >> The down sides to the Bay and Split window are the absence of a big hole >>> over the engine for easy access. >> >> The 1600-powered Bays had no engine hatch at all! > >Yeah, & the worst hack in Splitdom, besides the wheel wells being cut out, Ugh. >is to cut in a hatch over the engine to access the AC engine? I've seen >restos where they have patched in the hole to make it stock. Nope, thinking >more, the bulkhead removal to make a walk thru is the worst! So why doidn't they look for a walkthrough Split? Hard to find, maybe... then, not all Bays were walkthrough either. >Tom-don't need no access panel to work on a upright engine, just need 4' >long arms. Dead right! EASY to work on. But I do have long arms... -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR |
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