Originally Posted by Jim Williams (Post 6412518)

Sherwood -

I think others recommended to take your approach. I certainly wasn't suggesting to use a tap. It was just a warning for those who for some reason might take the advice of others to use one. My thoughts are that a tap should only be a last resort if the internal threads are too hopelessly buggered up to accept the bolt, and then only as a chaser, same tap size as the bolt, not a larger thread. My point was (or should have been) that a cross-threaded tap might be worse than a cross-threaded bolt.

Originally Posted by nilknarf (Post 6411415)

For anyone struggling with this in the future, when I went to bolt my engine/tran in place, the first thing I did was to loosen the trans mount plate so I could wiggle it by hand, then jacked the engine/trans into position and used a phillips screwdriver to adjust the alignment betwen the mounts on the trans and the mounts in the car. Once I had the trans bolted in, THEN I movd to the motor mounts at the back of the car. Once all the motor mount bolts were tightened down, then I snugged up the forward trans mount plate. Piece of cake!

Curt