{"id":71,"date":"2003-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:12:39","slug":"bel-air\/one-man-and-his-mig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"One Man and his MIG"},"content":{"rendered":"

After trial fitting the engine mounts while the stripped block hung on the crane, I realised that the mounts which I thought were 3\/4" forward were actually normal position ones. I pulled the block back clear and re-fitted the old front engine mounts as a guide, then lowered it back in and tightened it up. Try as I might, the mounts would not fit far enough forward without being pushed out by the chassis rivets. In the position that the instructions showed, they were about 1\/2" too far back. After hours of fitting and refitting, I decided to grind the middle chassis rivet out and tack the mounts in place. I got my nice shiny new mig out, guessed what the settings should be, and gave it a go. Hmm. Not enough penetration, bit more power. Nope still on the surface. I’ll adjust this other dial. \"Spazzy_Weld.jpg\" It keeps cutting off before you can get a decent weld going, and I end up with a load of poor welds that need to be ground off. So I did. Couple of tacks on the other side, just as bad. Hmmm. I gave up for the day and decided to try again on Sunday on some scrap metal. Same problem. Hmmm. Then it dawned on me. One of the dials is a spot weld timer. Set it to maximum and I can weld properly. Well better anyway! \"Mount_Weld.jpg\" Couple of decent tack welds either end of the drivers side bracket and a few over some of the ground out bad welds on the passenger side and it was time to try again with the engine hanging on the new brackets. Fit like a glove. Well a boxing glove. the brackets are both flat against the frame, and the top rivet. But the passenger side one is a few degrees different. The motor fits on, but its still different. It looks like a different angle to the other bracket. Ah well. I have just enough clearance for a HEI (I Think!), but i’ve got a normal sized distributor anyway. I’ll look at this again when I get my trans crossmember. \"New_Mounts.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After trial fitting the engine mounts while the stripped block hung on the crane, I realised that the mounts which I thought were 3\/4" forward were actually normal position ones. I pulled the block back clear and re-fitted the old front engine mounts as a guide, then lowered it back in and tightened it up. Try as I might, the mounts would not fit far enough forward without being pushed out by the chassis rivets. In the position that the instructions showed, they were about 1\/2" too far back. After hours of fitting and refitting, I decided to grind the middle chassis rivet out and tack the mounts in place. I got my nice shiny new mig out, guessed what the settings should be, and gave it a go. Hmm. Not enough penetration, bit more power. Nope still on the surface. I’ll adjust this other dial. \"Spazzy_Weld.jpg\" It keeps cutting off before you can get a decent weld going, and I end up with a load of poor welds that need to be ground off. So I did. Couple of tacks on the other side, just as bad. Hmmm. I gave up for the day and decided to try again on Sunday on some scrap metal. Same problem. Hmmm. Then it dawned on me. One of the dials is a spot weld timer. Set it to maximum and I can weld properly. Well better anyway! \"Mount_Weld.jpg\" Couple of decent tack welds either end of the drivers side bracket and a few over some of the ground out bad welds on the passenger side and it was time to try again with the engine hanging on the new brackets. Fit like a glove. Well a boxing glove. the brackets are both flat against the frame, and the top rivet. But the passenger side one is a few degrees different. The motor fits on, but its still different. It looks like a different angle to the other bracket. Ah well. I have just enough clearance for a HEI (I Think!), but i’ve got a normal sized distributor anyway. I’ll look at this again when I get my trans crossmember. \"New_Mounts.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}