{"id":60,"date":"2003-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:17:54","slug":"bel-airtidy-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Tidy Up Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skint and not enough space in the garage with all the rubbish in there. There&#8217;s 2 fridges and a dishwasher from moving house, and a barbecue etc that should be in a shed that I haven&#8217;t bought yet. Then theres all the bits I took off the 55 plus the old and new engine and boxes. Oh and a crane! Time to tidy up. As they are still building the estate I live on, there&#8217;s plenty of pallettes and wood knocking about. Using my best woodworking skills (ie none) I cut a pallette down so it would fit between the legs of the crane and lowered the old block onto it. Some of the left over pallette made a few handy supports.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the old one out of the way, onto the new one. That was already on a pallette with a box section frame supporting it. I&#8217;ve given up on the TH350 and I&#8217;m gonna look for a short tail one that&#8217;ll be an easier swap for the &#8216;glide. So plan B is to put the glide on for now. I got it hung on the crane and lined it up behind the new block, bolted up the flex plate and started bolting it all up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/Doity_old_block.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"187\" alt=\"Doity_old_block.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All OK so far. Bolt the starter on. Bolt one OK, can&#8217;t get bolt 2 to line up. A quick look underneath and I can see why. The mountings are in a different position on the new block. A quick search on the net shows up a standard starter and a &#8220;staggered&#8221; one. OK. Off to find another starter. Turns out there are different amounts of teeth on certain flex plates. How many teeth are on mine? Dunno. I&#8217;ll have to pull it back apart and count em. Doh. I&#8217;ll leave it all hanging on the crane for now, and start tidying up. A few hours later, it&#8217;s looking much better. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/tidy_garage.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" alt=\"tidy_garage.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skint and not enough space in the garage with all the rubbish in there. There&#8217;s 2 fridges and a dishwasher from moving house, and a barbecue etc that should be in a shed that I haven&#8217;t bought yet. Then theres all the bits I took off the 55 plus the old and new engine and boxes. Oh and a crane! Time to tidy up. As they are still building the estate I live on, there&#8217;s plenty of pallettes and wood knocking about. Using my best woodworking skills (ie none) I cut a pallette down so it would fit between the legs of the crane and lowered the old block onto it. Some of the left over pallette made a few handy supports.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the old one out of the way, onto the new one. That was already on a pallette with a box section frame supporting it. I&#8217;ve given up on the TH350 and I&#8217;m gonna look for a short tail one that&#8217;ll be an easier swap for the &#8216;glide. So plan B is to put the glide on for now. I got it hung on the crane and lined it up behind the new block, bolted up the flex plate and started bolting it all up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/Doity_old_block.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"187\" alt=\"Doity_old_block.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All OK so far. Bolt the starter on. Bolt one OK, can&#8217;t get bolt 2 to line up. A quick look underneath and I can see why. The mountings are in a different position on the new block. A quick search on the net shows up a standard starter and a &#8220;staggered&#8221; one. OK. Off to find another starter. Turns out there are different amounts of teeth on certain flex plates. How many teeth are on mine? Dunno. I&#8217;ll have to pull it back apart and count em. Doh. I&#8217;ll leave it all hanging on the crane for now, and start tidying up. A few hours later, it&#8217;s looking much better. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2003\/02\/tidy_garage.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" alt=\"tidy_garage.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bel-air","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}