19-05-2019, 08:44 PM
'Playing Bears' with an MG Midget in my special many years ago, I managed to pull the block to crankcase studs up by their roots. I got home (fortunately not very far) by taking the tow rope, which I always carried, under the sump and over the block as many times as it would go, using the jack handle as a Spanish windlass to tension it and driving very steadily indeed, making the most appalling noises.
Rebuilt the engine into another crankcase, as the old one was scrap!
I wasn't in the AA in those days.
Rebuilt the engine into another crankcase, as the old one was scrap!
I wasn't in the AA in those days.