BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: Trojanhorsepower's Rusty 74 restoration Mark II, Progress thread to keep me going Options

[trojanhorsepower]

Hi All

After finishing my rotisserie I am finally getting back to actual car work (started in 03). I am redoing what I did in the past (made a mess of it) and hopefully moving on from there. Doug has is helping me with the restoration, so hopefully we can make some actual progress. The entire passenger side of my car is pretty rotten so we have our work cut out for us. I got the good part of the long cut out so when Doug gets here maybe we can start filling in the gaps.
In this pic I have cut out the outside long bit.

10/1/15: Joined in the build off challenge!

[FourBlades]

Here is a picture after I replaced mine.

There is a flat part of the fire wall that you can't see in this picture that you can measure off of for the fore-and-aft location (red line).

The top of the motor mount needs to be just below the engine tin on that side.

You want to measure from the ground to the bottom of your existing one and duplicate that measurement so that it is not hanging lower or higher than the one
on the other side (green line).

I seem to remember that removing the old one left traces behind of where it had been that also helped to locate the new one. That may not work if you replaced that part of your long.



I think I also looked at the distance from the right edge of the motor mount to the suspension console as another landmark to check.

Hope this helps.

John