OK after 12 hours of bleeding hands but no real progress I have returned home via mcdonalds with these pictures
this shows the gasket where it would sit on the baleno block behind the clutch but the studs from BenT's kit won't allow it because of the shoulder on them or because the thread is too big
you can see in this photo that the thread by the pink pen is too large to go through the hole so you can't bolt it up against the block on the 1.6.
the problem I am having is that when bolting the engine up to the bell housing on the Sierra gear box there is a whole tonne of resistense.
from what I can tell it's all square but when I get to about 6mm from closing the gap, I have to hook an extra spanner onto the first spanner for leverage and that has me thinking I'm about to break something.
I pulled it all out again to check if any damage had occured and it looks perfect so fucked if I know.
anyway... these are the days of our lives I guess.
why didn't you just put a real engine in the sierra in the first place mr Suzuki!
