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Some conversions either removed, replaced or just cut away part of the front crossmember.
Maybe the motor & gearbox were raised (at an angle) to fit the Holden motor without cutting the front crossmember.
Still begs the question why raise the crossmember you had the problem with.......unless, as mentioned, it was to improve ground clearance.
Colin
May be some 1 fabricated a new crossmember or bought a new 1 and thought it would be a good idea to raise it to help avoid the damage but failed to do the calculations? Was a motor and gearbox fitted when you acquired the car? Those cross members are easy to fab up, the old man did quite a few over the years for property owners around here.
Cheers Scott
The gearbox in pic no. 5 is not bolted in for the picture for doing the welding, it sits closer to the R.H side of the tunnel as you stated.
The holden engine was already fitted when i got the car. no modification was done to the front cross member either, I thoguht I had got it in time before anything was changed.
I would assume the old cross member was either rusted or damaged and they replaced it prior to fitting the holden engine, subsequently the holden engine was fitted to suit the raised cross member...I assume it would have made some funky knocking noises on either the cross member or tunnel under jerking operation!
As i was removing the holden engine i remember thinking, "boy they didnt leave much wiggle room"
I would imagine wiggle room would have been very limited.
Usually just the fact that a Holden motor is raised at the front to level the carburettor, means that the bell housing on the gearbox is very close to the transmission tunnel.
Cheers, Mick.
If thats the case, then im sure the cross member would have been replaced after the engine was put in
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Originally Posted by mick88