I'd love to help you, Harmon, but my brain gets lost in your mind-wretching sig at the end of your note. I feel like I'm in hell, trying to count the teeth of a spinning flywheel, with a drunk gunning the throttle for all eternity.... Erik P.S. I've had the same Type I experience. Maybe your words of wisdom hold true with the Type IV's: "All is impermanent..." In message <01HMM7MIU6JM002NB6@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu> writes: > I just crawled out from under my van -- the '81 2 liter I'm putting in > it doesn't seem to fit. Oh, it goes in, the tran shaft meshes with the > clutch splines, etc. Then when I try to tighten up the four mounting > bolts, and it gets down to the last 1/2", something is binding. I've > done many a transplant -- but nothing with this new an engine. What it > reminds me of is when I tried to put a 1600cc in a 1200cc bug. The > flywheel was just a bit too big, and you had to grind out the inside > of the transaxle clutch housing --- is that what the problem is here? > Does anyone know if they made the flywheel bigger between the 1700cc > and the '81 2000cc??? I hate to pull it all out to look. > Or is there some other difference I'm missing? Surely someone has > done this before. Please e-mail me as I read the list on the web. > > > Harmon Seaver > seaverh@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu > Date sent: 3-FEB-1995 14:55:31 > hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu > harmon@buffett.engr.cae.wisc.edu > hseaver@csd.uwm.edu > > All is impermanent -- but this too shall pass away, and the way of the > Samurai is death, so speak your mind now, or forever hold your peace. > > The fundamental delusion of humanity is that I am in here, and you > are out there.
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