Engine Removal Cheat

[Fuzz Townshend]

Hello all,
Has anyone swerved the slightly long-winded engine removal process by removing the front crossmember rivets and replacing them with bolts?
Call me a scoundrel for suggesting such a thing, and indeed there may be reasons why this won’t work, but an early morning ‘eureka’ moment has led me to expose my wicked ways in the world of modifications.
Fuzz
1929 Burnham ball change
1933 Riley Nine Monaco
1935 Austin 7 Beaufort (no, not that sort of Beaufort)

[Fuzz Townshend]

I didn’t cheat in the end.
One unexpected (by me) problem was a much peined rear engine mounting bolt, which must have been dancing about for some time and was therefore irregularly shaped and a devil to remove.