1981 Turbo Esprit Dry sump Restoration

Great job on getting the lump out,  Regarding the hiring of an A frame..  can you not just sit the rear end of the car litterally down on its chassis at the back with the wheels removed, and also looking at your picture can the chain not be ajusted on the engine hoist to give more height, if not bolt some of those excess links in the chain together.  Good luck with the belts and so on. 

Regarding the gearbox one of the fellows on here the other day mentioned a decent firm opposite pnm engineering, so may be worth chasing that up as you could just drop your box with him and you never no it may need nothing but a least a specialist can open it up and see if it need surgery or not, if not only for your piece of mind. as a recon box is not cheap and these boxes are normally pretty good. 

5 hours ago, silverfrost said:

Great job on getting the lump out,  Regarding the hiring of an A frame..  can you not just sit the rear end of the car litterally down on its chassis at the back with the wheels removed, and also looking at your picture can the chain not be ajusted on the engine hoist to give more height, if not bolt some of those excess links in the chain together.  Good luck with the belts and so on. 

Regarding the gearbox one of the fellows on here the other day mentioned a decent firm opposite pnm engineering, so may be worth chasing that up as you could just drop your box with him and you never no it may need nothing but a least a specialist can open it up and see if it need surgery or not, if not only for your piece of mind. as a recon box is not cheap and these boxes are normally pretty good. 

Hi Silverfrost, When getting the lump out I did drop the car to it's chassis with the wheels off, but you are right the chain looks like it could come up a little more on the end of the crane, not sure why I didn't do that 

Thanks for the info regarding firm near PNM I'll investigate it, the costs for this project seem to be mounting up, so any money I can save would be a bonus.

http://www.alanvoigtsgearboxes.co.uk/ was mentioned elsewhere.

Great work on the restoration. Its a slippery slope as you will just keep taking parts off till it resembles mine; many boxes of assorted parts!

I believe that its recommended to lift the engine and gearbox together as its more difficult if they are split.

 

If you remove the load-leveler you'll get more height. Use a polyester sling under the sump, and a ratchet tie-down between the end of the gearbox, and the point of lift. Leave the ratchet strap slackish, until the engine has cleared the mounts, then the tension will come onto the strap. Same procedure when it goes back in, leave the aft strap slightly slack, and you can adjust the angle using the ratchet. Worked perfectly for my last engine/box removal.

On 8/17/2016 at 02:33, silverfrost said:

Great job on getting the lump out,  Regarding the hiring of an A frame..  can you not just sit the rear end of the car litterally down on its chassis at the back with the wheels removed, and also looking at your picture can the chain not be ajusted on the engine hoist to give more height, if not bolt some of those excess links in the chain together.  Good luck with the belts and so on. 

Regarding the gearbox one of the fellows on here the other day mentioned a decent firm opposite pnm engineering, so may be worth chasing that up as you could just drop your box with him and you never no it may need nothing but a least a specialist can open it up and see if it need surgery or not, if not only for your piece of mind. as a recon box is not cheap and these boxes are normally pretty good. 

Do you happen to know the name of the gearbox supplier next to PNM Eningeering? If not can you remember the thread? Looking at putting this lump back in shortly. I have a funny feeling that it's the dreaded circlip that's either broken off or slipped off, if that is the case then it should be an easy fix! Thanks in advance.

Hi Dave,    It is a post called  S2 gearbox rebuild, the poster is Daniel on here.  Just put that in the search engine on here as i cant post links 

But the name of the firm they speak of is called  Allen Voigts gearboxes.  Worth giving him a shout to see what the damage to your pocket would be for giving the gearbox a once over.    I  am sure other members will come up with some other places they have used and recommend also hopefully .