DeTomaso Mailing List: April 99, Message #251

At 21:47 -0400 6/4/99, Wayne Stevens wrote:
>Go Nancy; Kirby; Mike Trusty; Jack Tunnell . . . .
> . . .#27O4 is completely nakit  'cept for suspension. . . .
>Big deal, I heard someone say!
>Is it wiser to install the braces before brake lines and
>engine/trans are installed, or after?
>I think I realize that the new brace bar with the adjusting
>gizmo in the center wouldn't go in until  AFTER the engine
>is installed!?!?! This is the one that sets just over the trans case.
>
>RSVP  soon,  we were going to begin this weekend!
>
>[Am I reading that someone is going to  REMOVE
>the origional engine compartment brace? ? ? ? ? ]
>Homey don't think so!
>
>Wayne in Md

I'd put all of them in prior to the engine and trans and then once 
you've got them all in, welded and painted... Take out the two upper 
rears to put the engine and transaxle in.

My 2 cents...

Kirby