horseflesh said:
You drill up to the bolts ? Curious to see the thread now. As I am likely doing exactly that shortly. Fok. Love these cars but damn the learning curve is getting steep.
You drill through the "housing" which is 1/2" thick then there's an "air gap" of about three inches to the bolts.
But the "flanges" of the flywheel might be in the way and block access, so you rotate the crank until you can see the bolts.
The flanges of the flywheel have about 1/2" of clearance to the inside of the housing.
I didn't take pictures of that part because I had metal bits falling in my hair and one little piece fell in my eye. But I will crawl under again and take a picture of the holes I drilled.
It's easy to drill through because it's cast aluminum.
One thing you might want to do is glue your socket to the extension. I used hot glue gun for my 1" JIS bits because I didn't want them getting lost.
You just heat it up again to pull the socket off and pull the glue off (it's kinda like wax).
The hole I drilled was just big enough to get the socket through then I had to be really careful pulling it back through the hole or the socket pops off and it's trapped inside.
The holes don't have to be dead on because you reach up 3" and have some wobble room but I did switch to 1/4" socket and extension to help.
The bolts are small with little torque so 1/4" will work.
I'm gonna repost this in my thread because I was going to put it in there anyway and I do all this with my phone and one finger so it takes me forever.
I do check kijiji and I should do it more often so i can jump on a clean one if it shows up.
Maybe I could even post a wanted ad ??
I don't care much about the cosmetic rust, it's the rotten frames I don't like.