Ruby engine removal?

[Steve kay]

After years of lining up the clutch master spline with the gearbox bell housing wobbling on the short crankcase studs, I came up with the following:-

make a couple of long (6" or so) studs to fit to the top crankcase stud locations, to provide 'guide rails' on which to slide the gearbox assembly on to the engine. With top gear engaged it takes only a minute or so to get the clutch to slide into engagement. I don't bother with the centering tool - assemble the clutch cover loosely and you have enough wiggle room to get it correctly centred, and then you carefully tighten the cover, and lock the tabs. The long studs can be removed and the originals refitted.
Haven't tried it with the engine in the car - slightly shorter studs may be necessary.
Hope to be able to attach an image.
Good luck
Bob

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try this attempt!

I only found this method on the forum late last year, and wish I'd thought of it years ago! It genuinely does reduce the procedure to a couple of minutes, so many thanks. I may belong to the elderly arthritic fingers brigade, but lining up engine and gearbox in the car always defeated me. Whip then both out, in due course join them back together on the bench and lower back in. Wine rack remains almost full, swear box almost empty.