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Time for the motor mount install

This part is kind of exciting and spooky too. The motor mount bolt tube holes don't line up too good with the predrilled firewall holes. Hmmm... First things first, I knew from reading on the RV groups that this nutplate and bolt have to ground down to allow for the bottom tubing on the motor mount. I finally got to use my new pneumatic grinder tool.
UPDATE: 7/12/2010 At this point, I should have drilled a hole in the firewall that goes behind the motor mount. This hole allows you to insert the front gear bolt into the motor mount. The written instructions didn't say JACK about this hole, only vague references to it in the drawings. I've read in the groups where many builders did the same thing I did. So now I have to remove the motor mount to drill this hole in the firewall.

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