I decided it was time to give the GT6 engine mounts some long-overdue attention. The extra C-plates I’d picked up from another engine were already drilled, so I thought I’d trial them — inverted, rotated 90 degrees, and generally persuaded into what looked like the desired position. The engine, of course, was sitting on a skate like a patient in traction, so this was all done with the sort of optimism usually reserved for Meccano experiments after two whiskies.
All I needed now were the nuts to hold the whole thing together. No problem, I thought, and reached for the plastic tub reassuringly labelled ENGINE MOUNTS. Opened it up… nothing. Bare. A barren wasteland. A Tupperware tomb.
After tearing the workshop apart in frustration, the penny dropped. The engine had arrived with mounts, yes, but never with nuts. I was looking for something that never existed in the first place — the engineering equivalent of a unicorn.
Not a tragedy, of course. A couple of nuts can be sourced easily enough. What bothers me more is the mounting arrangement itself. With the C-plates notched to sit over the square chassis rails, I can’t quite see how any nut will actually thread on without divine intervention or a finger slimmer than human anatomy allows. Someone has clearly managed this before, so it isn’t impossible — perhaps the trick lies in hacking a bit off the excess bolt length.
It’s one of those jobs that feels both trivial and faintly ridiculous. The kind where you stare at the thing for ten minutes, spanner in hand, wondering whether the designers were geniuses or sadists. Until I decide which, the engine will sit on its skate, looking smug, while I go shopping for nuts that never were.
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