Probably more convenient than an air tool too - a bit of a phaff to muck around with the compressor, a bit of annoyance for the neighbours with noise pollution, and you still have that air hose to unravel...
Wonder if this engine will work ok??
So what did you do in the afternoon?So the replacement engine is in and married up to the auto. All fairly straight forward. Moved box right over to chassis. Lowered engine in, mounted engine on mount and put jack under sump on block. Moved crane onto gearbox and by using blocks and jacking / lowering engine and box it went together. Bolted up and then underneath to connect drive plate and tc. Holes were dead in line for a bolt. I uswd the engine plate to set the drive plate and the tc to 'mid window' position before dropping the engine in. So LH driveshaft in and a break for a cupof tea before fitting alternator, air con pump, ird and all other ancilleries. Glad that worked out ok. Have swapped broken brake fluid level switch from donor. Will put up photo as the switch pulls from the master cyl easily. No fluid loss as it is a reed switch with a float magnet inside the cylinder. Wonder if this engine will work ok???
This is what a brake fluid level indicator looks like after you have hit it with a TD4 shaped wrecking ball ! Sounds a bit dramatic, I actually just 'caught' it on the way out with my engine
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