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Hello to all The title of this mail message might seem a little peculiar but that is exactly what happened to me over the weekend. You will recall my questions of clutch repair/replacement on a '67 Notch that I posted last week. Well the car was delivered to my house last Saturday and after checking a couple of things my dad and I removed the engine. Everything went fine until we lowered it to the floor. About halfway down the engine suddenly slipped off the jack and hit the garage floor. It happened so fast there was nothing we could do except stand there and call the SOB thing every four letter word in the book!!! After a post-mortem examination I found the following: The left-hand heat exchanger and the silencer took most of the impact. The heat exchanger seems to be fine but the exhaust came loose from all it's fixtures. I'll just refit it using new gaskets and clamps. The crankcase connected nothing more serious than the jack I had been using and the point of impact was on the right-hand edge where the bottom tin bolts to. Furthet than that everything checks out fine....I hope.... The engine still turns freely and it does not leak any oil where it is standing now so I recon it'll be OK. Anyway, after all this excitement it turned out that the release bearing as well as the clutch assembly are stuffed and must be renewed. Thats another day's troubles. Regards Adriaan Loedolff adriaan@norton.ctech.ac.za '69 Squareback Automatic (199 200 miles)