Cummins Drift Truck a la Dum-Dum

[Dum-Dum]

So for the benefit of Piggy here is my incredibly exciting 1 1/4" core plug blocking up the oil filler so I can fit the engine mounts.






I've been out this afternoon removing more parts as I got home early from work and still had some daylight. Got the air compressor off and this pile of parts which includes alot of superfluous brackets, the crank breather hose as well as the big gearbox brackets which were a pain in the arse because of dissimilar metal corrosion of steel bolts in an alloy block.






Started taking the exhaust manifold off and got the front 6 bolts out (with my biggest breaker bar, hammered on sockets and alot of plus gas) the rear 6 are so rounded they look dome headed and barely have a discernible face. Even heating the head to soften it to hammer on a socket couldn't get a socket on. Going to have to file/grind 2 sides of them flat onto a head I can get a spanner on or try welding nuts onto the end so that I can get them out. I need the exhaust manifold off so I can flip it to high mount the turbo and clear the steering column and also I need to get the studs out of it and measure up for the turbo adapter.






Engine is starting to look smaller with all the bits off. Next step might well be flipping the sump.