Build day 24

Engine

The following sequence is composed of frames from a video my father-in-law Stewart took of us dropping the engine into the car. (I'm the one in the grey T-shirt.)

We fitted the engine mounts after their bolt holes had gone below the chassis rail on the driver's side. (The chassis rail on the passenger's side was unbolted and removed for this.)  The mounts will foul to some extent on the rail so I think this worked pretty well for us 

I had removed the ZETEC's air unit to simplify the job but found that its bolts aren't all accessible with the engine in. So you will see that we raised the engine enough to refit the air unit. Then we found that the mixer valve under the air unit fouled on the rail. I removed the mixer valve and re-fitted the air unit and proceeded.

I wanted to fit the engine on the ground however my engine crane wouldn't fit under the car so I put it back up on stands.

Otherwise with some care and attention the engine slid into place pretty straight forward.