So I managed to get the engine off the dolly, onto an engine stand. The easiest method I found is to raise the engine with the hoist so high that the stand fits to the engine, then lower it down carefully. I also cat littered my entire garage. Took some pics.
Last night, Tyler and Rafi came over and we dropped the front suspension and engine. Thanks guys, I couldn’t have done it without you two and Ricky’s help the night before.
The engine is out, after two real days of work. It isn’t very far removed from the car, but disconnected, sitting, er… sideways under it on a wooden dolly.
I know the new engine is coming soon, but not immediately, I need to take a number of parts that I will be reusing from this engine to my machine shop. I can’t wait for the new motor, it should be something special.
This is something I actually planned and to everyone’s surprise it went relatively flawlessly. I broke one stud on the exhaust manifold. This is normal, turbo manifold see very high temperature spikes. It wont be tough to fix. In contrast to most of the work done in the glorious garage of nonM, Tyler has a damaged right wrist, so he can only do light help and take pics. So this was documented more thoroughly than nearly anything else ever done with this car.
After the engine was safely on the wooden dolly, we called it a night.
Tyler and I started taking stuff apart the other day. We didn’t get much done, we weren’t entirely sober, we kept things lite; I took the intake manifold off. Yesterday Ricky came over and we tore down much of the stuff that needs to be undone before I drop this motor out. The front suspension needs dropping and then the guibo needs to be undone and it will all go DOWN!!! Can’t wait for Jim to finish my machine work. I’m taking a few things I’ll be reusing to him for some balancing and clearancing. I can’t express my excitement, pics soon to follow.
