Re: Eliminate draft tube options
If the cap is salvageable enough to hold some retaining nuts or whatever, maybe you can still win by doing that. Then use side engine mounts for the engine. No more stress on that front area and those bolts only have to hold the steel plate tight. Make a bracket that bolts on with the main bearing cap boltss and bears down against the cap or else is strong enough not to bend when the smaller bolts are torqued up.
Or, spend a whack of cash for a new bag cap and a complete rebuild because the engine shop is gonna say why take it completely apart, install another front bearing cap and line bore the whole thing but then install used parts.
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