Feel your pain bro!
Yes, Mother's day=spending time with Wife and Mothers. Sat was the 1st car show of the year with Tim and some of the LOON'sMike, I think you will find that on nice weekends, Forum traffic will be slight as most of us are enjoying our cars.
Add Mother's Day into the mix, and that's another reason for the dearth of posts.
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Well said! I just did the clutch master cylinder...to get to the bracket bolt on the brake MC I used 2 old box-end wrenches that had slightly different orientations of the "nubs". I could just get it 1/24th turn with one wrench, then switched to the other for another 1/24th...took a while. Also had to bend a 13mm and angle-grind it thinner to get the bolt behind the outlet port on the clutch MC (needed to re-adjust the actuator shaft after it was bled and didn't want to undo the hose).Mpesik, an assortment of tools are a godsend when working on the Esprit. I usually have the same tool in different brands, Craftsman, Snap On, Channel lock, etc. I have found over the years that different brands of tools have different thickness, shorter or longer handles, and alot of times with will get you out of a bind easily. I work as a repair guy though, so tools are my bread and butter, I never have a problem spending money on them, they are an investment in me. My wife likes to go to flea markets, and I usually go along because it never surprises me what tools I can find there cheap, alot of people have no idea what tools are for what, or what they cost new, especially alot of specific job kinda tools.
Cheap tools are great too, because if you need a one time use tool, you can modify it like grind it down, drill it out or whatever you have to do to make it work, and then you are not out alot of money if you destroy it. I do this alot when I weld something together, destroy my cheap assortment of tools, and save the good ones for proper things.
Engine removal not necessary. You just need a slightly stronger magnet to retrieve the plate. rotflIt MAY be necessary to remove the engine to adjust the latch on the driver's door (seriously, drop the back plate and you'll probably need to remove the tank to get it, tank won't come out without removing the engine).