Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #15 – March 13, 2013, 08:10:55 AM Look up engine and transmission removal on you tube, that will give you an idea of what needs done :) Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #16 – March 13, 2013, 08:12:00 AM Oh, and we didnt remove the K member. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #17 – March 13, 2013, 12:13:01 PM Quote from: TheFoeYouKnow;411065Wow, dude. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #18 – March 13, 2013, 12:30:13 PM Apparently, you didn't read enough to understand that I wasn't asking for advice. I was asking "if anyone has done it this way or similar?". Technically a yes/no question. Anyone answering "Yes." might have been asked for advice. If you do yours differently, that's fine. But if that's the case, I don't know what compelled you to answer. A sufficient answer would have been, "No, I've never done it that way, and I don't know anyone who has.". I know you're not new, and I know you know what you're doing, but you don't know my whole situation, my resources, or my reasons; you only know what I'm planning. If you don't agree with my battleplan, so to speak, you may say so, but there is no reason to flame. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #19 – March 13, 2013, 04:25:56 PM If you post a question your going to get an answer May not always be the response you want either. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #20 – March 22, 2013, 06:56:20 PM Did the first pull day before yesterday. Came out the bottom good, it took about an hour and 45, but I've got to give myself 20 minutes for messing around with the rear brake line mount from the passenger inner body rail and the p/s hose mount from the driver's inner body rail. If I hadn't had a 1/4" line union already in the line up by the front, I'd have had to make one. Once the engine was on the floor, it took about 20 minutes to put the K and it's springs back in. The other car doesn't have clips on the lines and hoses attaching them to the body, and it also has a union in the rear line by the front. I love having a powertrain table. The engine is ready for the transplant, the new headers are on and the new h-pipe is in place. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #21 – March 23, 2013, 01:07:43 AM I pull the powersteering and ac brackets off together, undo the two bolts for the motor mount, unplug harness's and ground/starter cable and gas and trans lines, undo the two bolts for the transmission and drop the y-pipe. If your y-pipe/exhaust manifold bolts are clean/been off recently, its litterly 5 minutes.Then you swap just the motor mounts over, and lay it back in there. Start to finish in about 2 hours.I have always wanted to drop a k-member before though, just to see how rusty the beast really is. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #22 – March 23, 2013, 01:35:25 AM I take it you had access to a car lift?? Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #23 – March 23, 2013, 03:20:49 AM I haven't, no.Just a harbor freight cherry picked setup on the front with a short chain, then a come along wraped aroind the tail of the trans on the back. As you lift it up, you can hang it almost straight up (with the hood off...) and pull it back until the oilpan is about resting on the radiator. Then you come along the trans untill you have enough clearance to pull it over the header panel. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #24 – March 23, 2013, 01:00:55 PM That is pretty neat, I never would have thought of doing it like that. I always seems mess the paint up pulling the engine out from the top. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #25 – March 23, 2013, 03:47:36 PM Yup, best part, you can leave your ac/ powersteering in the engine bay. Leave exhaust manifolds on, dipstick, intake(although its easier to pill the upper off.) I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting, haven't swapped an engine in 5 or so years. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #26 – March 23, 2013, 08:18:40 PM @haystack - The way you see the motor in the pic is the way it came out. Fully dressed. I consider that to be one of the advantages to dropping rather than pulling. Additionally, I spilled no ATF or oil because the engine didn't tilt at all, I scratched no paint, and I did it without a spotter. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #27 – March 26, 2013, 10:59:45 PM I did mine like Haystack. I spilled no ATF because I put a yolk in the trans and capped off the trans cooler connectors. No spotter either, although I would have liked to have had one. I was scared to death it might come down on the nose of my bird. I assume u done it with a lift. I no longer have access to one. Would have thought un-doing the K-member with the engine in would be a bear. I guess not. Good work! Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #28 – March 26, 2013, 11:39:17 PM My buddies old 4-runner we pulled the engine through the bottom.Someone ran a light and he was moving pretty good and couldn't stop in time and t-boned them. We got my little 2 ton engine puller, unbolted everything and lifted it by the bumper brackets to get to the engine and trans. We did cut out the coss member and motor mounts with a sawsall(motor was trapped inside by bodywork). It was pretty quick and painless. Love working on stuff that you can take a saws all to. Quote Selected
Unconventional Engine/Trans pull Reply #29 – March 26, 2013, 11:47:34 PM Quote from: Chrome;411913I did mine like Haystack. I spilled no ATF because I put a yolk in the trans and capped off the trans cooler connectors. No spotter either, although I would have liked to have had one. I was scared to death it might come down on the nose of my bird. I assume u done it with a lift. I no longer have access to one. Would have thought un-doing the K-member with the engine in would be a bear. I guess not. Good work! Thanks. Before I pulled the 8 k-member bolts, I pulled the 4 sway bar bolts and the 2 cross member bolts. Also I unbolted the struts and pulled the springs. I had quite a bit of the car's weight on the table in addition to the powertrain's weight, because I expected the 2 to part company quickly once detached. I didn't want any surprises from sudden weight loss. Quote Selected
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