Ok so I'm at a loss..... How in the world am I supposed to get a wrench on the top and the bottom to secure this silly engine. There is NO room no matter how I try. Even if I lift the motor to drop new bolts in how in the heck do I get a ratchet in there after the fact in order to tighten it all up? Any help fellers?

And I think the bolts have to come from bottom and the nut goes on top because there is no clearance underneith to have the bolt protruding past the nut.

The only way i know to get the bolts/nuts/spacers back in is to pull the engine and adaptor plate.

It is no big deal to do that. I pull the fuel tank and stand , hood and grill , unhook your wires , cables , driveshaft , etc .. and six bolts that hold the adaptor plate.

It sounds worse than what it really is.

So the process is to mount the engine to the plate first then set the whole unit back in and mount the plate to the frame?

Thats it !!

I am pretty sure there is service manual in the Tech library for tractors on how to do it. You probably might want to look thru it , it would probably help.

Thanks. I'll look there too!