Shanemill

Awesome cheers guys for the advice, will see how I get on tomorrow 🙂

im from New Zealand and found it super hard to find advice, had people telling me you have to remove the dash, gearbox comes out through the interior etc. left me scratching my head 😅

Much appreciated 

1 hour ago, RobPearce said:

I took mine out the bottom with no way to lift the car high. Put the front of the car on ramps. Get some lengths of studding - about three feet or so - and replace one front cross-member bolt at each end with them. Then remove the remaining bolts, and gradually undo the nuts on the studding to lower the engine onto (preferably) and flat trolley. I think I may then have unbolted the engine mounts to remove the cross-member, and rolled the engine onto its side to give the clearance I needed.

If you have a high lift engine crane, you can use that to lift the front of the body to get clearance. And if you don't, you have no way to lift the engine out the top either.

Thanks for your reply Rob,

Would you happen to remember the thread pitch and size for the studding?

Triumph didn’t make it easy working on these it seems! I’m a Panelbeater but usually can replace gearboxes in an hour or motors in an afternoon but this seems like quite the mission! Maybe after doing it once it will all make a lot more sense 🙂

22 minutes ago, Gt6s said:

To lift the engine from the top YOU MUST remove the gearbox first.

So gearbox cannot stay in car and has to been dropped out first? Any tips for getting the top bell housing bolts?

cheers

Hello, so unfortunately I blew my motor in my 74 mk2 and now finally after 2 years I’ve found my replacement motor.

I’ve never removed an engine out of a triumph but I’ve heard a lot of different Ideas on how to go about it. Everyone seems to like removing them out the bottom but sadly I don’t have a way to get the car high enough for this so it’ll be coming out the top.

so my big question is, is there any tips or tricks I should know before starting this? Are the bellhousing bolts easy to get to or do you need to undo some from inside the car, jack the gearbox up etc.

cheers

shane