Motor Installation

After 3 long months of waiting the gearbox, couplers and adaptor plates arrived. At first try the coupler did not fit so back to Geoff for some fine tuning. When it came back everything fit ok so I fitted the adaptor plate to the motor then the coupler and after a lot of time sorting out the right bolts and lining up the motor on the hoist I fit the motor to the gearbox and tightened all of the bolts.

Next I lifted the motor gearbox into the car and bolted it to the front and rear transmission mounts. I the refitted the drive shafts to the transaxle and remounted the wheel hubs and steering arms. I then connected the output of the oil pump to the input to bypass the oil cooler in the radiator, as it will no longer be needed. The majority of the heat generated in an auto transmission is from the torque converter and this is now gone. I filled the transmission with atf and I was ready for a test run.

I put the transmission in D and connected the motor to the old starter battery and hey presto the wheels started turning. There was a very short delay between when the motor started turning to when the wheels turned, maybe 1/4 second. I don't know what this will feel like when driving yet but I have some ideas on fixing the problem.