Pulling Engine & Transmission out

[naughtika]

Hey fellas

this question goes to members here who's pulled out their engine and transmission..

any advice that you guys can give me apart from the obvious parts and connections..

planning on doing this sometime next month or september..

 

[Hipsi]

.....for the fun of it?

 

[Guest]

Why christian, what you up to???

 

[Guest]

its easier to drop it out the bootom than to lift it out the top

 

[SiliconAngel]

Only if you can lift the rest of the car that high - its easier to hire an engine crane than it is to get a car lift in your garage

 

[naughtika]

reason i ask.. I'll be doing the service soon..

will be replacing the brass seals as well.. about the taking off the engine.. i will drop it rather than lift it up since the space at the top is a little cramped and possibility of stuffing other parts too..

 

[Guest]

Only if you can lift the rest of the car that high - its easier to hire an engine crane than it is to get a car lift in your garage

Id have to say for my money carstens right, we had a go at it a month or two ago on a CVR4 guys car, and i think you have to be superman to angle the engine and box enough to get it out the top past the chassis rails. We just used some blocks of wood and a normal jack to get the car high enough.. was a bit dangerousy looking, but it worked damm well

I suppose if you had the gearbox off first it would probably come out the top?

 

[Guest]

Only if you can lift the rest of the car that high - its easier to hire an engine crane than it is to get a car lift in your garage

its still eaiser to get the car up high, (even with only sissor jacks)

done this twice now.

we still had a engine crane thou, to drop the motor slowly and lift it back in,

theres more to removed if you lift,
if you drop it, you can leave it nearly fully intact (eng/gearbox/transfer case)

 

[VR-04-TT]

Looks like I'm putting mine up on the hoist in Bega

 

[SiliconAngel]

I can't imagine what it'd take to get the car high enough to lift it over the engine without a lift... maybe I'm just not being creative enough