Ford Escort MK1 Restoration. MX5 NA Gearbox onto Zetec part 5

[@frederickshipp8013]

Thank you for sharing. I'm preparing to put a Yanmar in a TJ Jeep and been watching videos for ideas and mistakes to avoid. Yours is one of, if not the best I've watched. No adapters or kits available so I have to fabricate an adapter, engine mounts and figure something out on the flywheel. Good thing I like a challenge and have 55 years plus fabricating experience.

[@DavesGarageuk]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ModernClassics81]

Nice work Dave, I’ve learnt loads from watching your videos! It’s really showing in the rebuild of my escort.

[@DavesGarageuk]

Cheers mate, I am glad that my videos are helpful 😊😊

[@nealthomas5943]

Cracking job Dave 👌

[@rickwilliams1505]

You have the drive to work around any problem ,great video

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thanks Rick 👍

[@sidsxr3irestoration]

Great video Dave test drive by the end of next week 😉👍

[@DavesGarageuk]

🤣🤣

[@neildawson2794]

Excellent work Dave, your a very clever man! 👊🏼

[@johnrowell942]

Great videos and how to conversion. Thank you for sharing and helping 🙏. Look forward to see it all fitted.

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thank you John 😊

[@neiljarvis8911]

Great job!

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thanks!

[@neill4133]

Fantastic work and money saved again! Love your methodical engineering approach 👍🏼

[@DavesGarageuk]

Cheers Neil 😊😊

[@alanchurchill7305]

Another great video Dave, another problem solved, another step closer.

[@clivebannister7016]

Great job yet again!!!

[@TheDaf95xf]

Morning Dave the gas man in his man. Ave working on cars 🤣 The whole episode on this gear box conversation and the helpful tips was a credit to you Sir. I’ve loved every single episode so far 👍🏻

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thanks Stevie, let's hope it works 😉

[@Playford-garden-maintenance]

Dave the legend well impressed

[@robinstewart4729]

great video dave

[@micktuck5377]

Another fantastic job Dave. Thanks for sharing your advice and skills. I’m sure the crank spigot bearing would be fine, put some grease in the crank s/bearing and see how far up in box input shaft it goes, you’ll know how far it sitting in Great video mate

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thanks Mick, that's kinda how I could see how far in it was going, I could see a grease line on the input shaft. I should have shown that in the video I guess 😅

[@billywhizz98]

Another great video Dave I don’t know if some people are aware that Ford motor company was a majority shear holder of Mazda the Mazda121was built on the same production line’s as the Ford fiesta in Dagenham

[@DavesGarageuk]

Explains the Ford/Mazda link

[@bean1080]

Top job Dave!

[@sjgcustom]

Great work Dave 👍🏻

[@philrogers2406]

Nice work Dave

[@robertamor3203]

well done dave

[@deanmarskell1518]

Brilliant video Dave very interesting and informative love the channel and what you do well done your doing great will have the escort on the road before you know it.♥️👍

[@DavesGarageuk]

Thanks Dean, appreciate that 😊

[@bigsquatchsasfoot1964]

Brilliantly done Dave I’ve learned an awful lot from this thanks . I’ve also learned that I’d probably have to bring it round to you as I’m almost certainly to thick to achieve this to your level anyway 😂 great work mate 👍

[@DavesGarageuk]

😅

[@patadamson4005]

Did you need to get a custom pilot bushing mate? That so far is the hardest part for me to source in my project.

[@DavesGarageuk]

I haven't. The nose of the shaft does fit in the pilot, just. I've found a double width bearing, which I'm going to try. I'm not going to be doing huge mileage, just a weekend toy, so I'm not overly concerned tbh. If it fails, then I'll sort something.

[@mykswappedescortmk2]

Good work Dave. Do you happen to know the diameter of the plate and spline count on the MX5 clutch plate?

[@DavesGarageuk]

Hi, it's 215mm outer diameter, 150mm inner, 22 spline 24mm. Hope this helps

[@cmdghost1]

How is it on the road? Its holding?

[@DavesGarageuk]

The cars not on the road yet, still part way through a restoration

[@paulpobsanderson6219]

Great Dave. I noticed you pulled the clutch fork to activate it, escort cable pulls from the opposite direction, are you planning hydraulic?

[@DavesGarageuk]

I am planning to go hydraulic, that's future Dave's problem 😉

[@eizgot]

Hi Dave great video, a true British engineer, would you have a template for the engine/gearbox plate you would sell. Keep up the great videos.

[@DavesGarageuk]

I'd want to test this actually works before I even thought of offering anything for sale. Thanks for asking though 😊

[@duncancremin1708]

Hi Dave. I’m loving this series, but I’m a bit concerned that you’re deleting all the locating dowels and relying completely on your bolts, to line everything up. I noticed it with the block, first, but I figured you had a plan. Now you’ve moved on and there seems to be no plan. Now you’re doing the same thing with the starter. Admittedly, that doesn’t need to be quite as precise as the bell housing/block joint, but it still seems foolhardy to have the mounting hole so large and yet have no location dowels. Usually either the hole is a snug fit, or there are dowels in the mounting face, to ensure the motor is precisely positioned every time it’s fitted. Over time, a very small misalignment will chew up the starter pinion, but you won’t know it’s happening until it’s too late and the ring gear is mullered too. Relying on the bolts, with M10 bolts in 10mm holes, particularly when hand drilled, using the “eye-crometer”, you’ll be lucky not be up to 0.5mm misaligned. That brings me back to the bell housing dowels. I fitted a clutch in a Nissan Almera, which was missing the dowels. Someone had changed the gearbox and left them out when the new one was fitted. I should have known there was a mechanical problem, because the disc had grenaded, but I stupidly fitted the new clutch kit, bolted it all back together and sent it on its way. I had to go and tow it in, a month later, with the disc grenaded again. Then I engaged my brain and figured it out. A couple of dowels from the scrap yard, another clutch kit and it never gave any more trouble. It’s an expensive way to learn, but effective. Those locating dowels are important. The flex in a clutch disc can’t cope with permanent misalignment. It only allows for assembly. Once the rpms start and the flexing is happening at high frequency, metal fatigue causes the disc to disintegrate spectacularly.

[@DavesGarageuk]

Hi Duncan, that's very helpful thank you, I shall revisit this later when I'm ready to use it. Brilliant advice, exactly why I started the channel so help goes both ways 😊😊

[@MrJarny]

Did you put the clutch plate in the wrong way?

[@DavesGarageuk]

I'll check on that, it'll be pulled apart a few times yet

[@duncancremin1708]

At 15 minute in, the disc is definitely the wrong way around, but it probably doesn’t matter at this point. Not a habit you should get into, though. Very easy to overlook, when installing it in the car

[@grahamorchard8282]

Dave, did you try fitting the starter after the flywheel? You might struggle to get the motor on / off with the studs limiting your wiggle room once the flywheel is fitted ( you won't want to remove the gearbox if the starter ever fails!

[@DavesGarageuk]

I have mate, failed to record that though 😕

[@mandalorian957]

Hope your thrust bearing isnt touching your pressure plate fingers zetec to rx8 its a nightmare to get right whining thrust bearing