Lauren's 1985 Kouki Trueno

[Lauren]

Well progress seems to be slow. I seem to feel ill everytime I work on the car, it's just a bit too cold in the workshop at the moment.

We got the engine off the stand with the help of the engine crane. I put the clutch and pressure plate on, but then remembered, arrghh, MR2 crank, spigot bearing!

I'm glad I remembered as I wouldn't want to go through that again.

Here it is with the spigot bearing which the gearbox input shaft locates into:


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It does make it harder to get the gearbox on though.

Mark drills out the stripped thread on the bell housing:

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Then he taps it:

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Then helicoil in:

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Engine and gearbox reunited complete with new clutch.


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There are four bolts missing. Mark wasn't happy using whatever bolts were around so will have to order the right bolts from Toyota.

Next step is getting the engine and box in, not looking forward to that!