Time to lift the engine. Luckily there is an engine hoist onsite that belongs to Richard and he didn’t mind me using it.

Quite nervous about lifting the engine and and trusting the hoist and the lifting bracket that I made but it seems to be holding up ok.

As the Bristell uses its own engine mount two of the pump aluminimum pipes need to be repositioned and the other two need to be replaced with modified pipes that come with the kit.

So the pump needs to be removed.

The engine mount needs to be fitted as it’s the only way that you can position the new water pump pipes. The mount is quite tight to fit and you need to make sure that you don’t catch any cables. The top right bolt needs to be removed as that becomes one of the engine mounting bolts that are fitted later.

As stated above, it’s a very tight fit so care must be taken to ensure that cables don’t get damaged. They will need to be protected before the engine goes into service.

The engine mount fitted. The water pump pipes need to be removed but I decided to think it through a bit more before carrying out the work tomorrow.

Now I have my grease gun I can fill the steering bearing with universal grease.

and then refit the castellated nut and fit a new split pin.

The other bearing that needs to be filled with grease is the nosebag pivot. It’s tricky to get to and once filled it’s tricky to remove the fitting from the grease nipple.

For peace of mind I’ve lowered the engine onto a beer crate and surrounded it with the packing that came with the engine so I can leave it overnight.