Bruce’s trail of repairs.

[Bruce.huling]

Originally Posted by Bruce.huling

I need to get to Gordon levy’s place for some experienced eyes. I was checking the bolt upgrade and all remained tight. I look at the the header position gap to body on the driver side and dang, it looks like the side pipe is low on that side. I use a ruler at the header flange to see if the header flange is lower on that side and I don’t see a difference to passenger side, yet the pipe ground clearance is definitely about an 1.5” lower. What the heck? I can not see visible bend or collapse of the bracket (my first thought) so I’m not sure what is bent or pronged. Car runs great though. Figures. I’m thinking somehow that d/s bracket is bent down allowing the motor to tilt enough that you can see it out at the end of the pipes exiting the body. Thoughts?

So go thru my pictures from po and as received and it looks like it has always been low on the ds. Ha. So I look on the ps and it looks like a 1/4 inch spacer added to mount to raise ps side up higher. This might explain why it looks like the alternator hit the frame at some time in the past, someone said… I can fix that with a shim! Never bothered to level it out with one on the ds. I will make one up and give it a try. I suspect the motor mount plates were for a different height motor originally and were close enuf when built. Given it had 27,000 miles when I purchased her, not sure how this escaped the normal fix it routine. My wife says it’s because I am OC about cars.