what the easiest way to remove the trany and motor? tranny from bottom and motor from top , or both from top? or both from bottom? or take the radiator suport brackets off and remove it from the front of the car with the gar down? can you take it from the front? i know they supports come off if i remove the axles will it come out that way?

 

First off, remove both together.

Secondly, some people will say remove the motor from the top via a cherry picker. Others will say to remove it from the bottom. Here is a thread that will help if you remove the motor/tranny from the bottom.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=411175

 

easiest way is to remove it from the top, just drain all the fluids, take out both axels, undo all the harness' and vaccum lines that are connected to it. remove the header, Hook your chain around the left and right mount and pull it out. Its probably a good idea to take out the radiator. Its no quiet as simple as I made it seem but you can bust it out in about an hour or 2 with all the tools..

 

sorry slammed but i disagree. i have done about 6 swap so far on a wide range of hondas from accords to my crx and the easiest way to remove an engine in my opinion is to just unbolt the engine and tranny from the actual rubber mount brackets and lower the engine. the reason i say this is because it is easier to just drop throught the bottom since its already level then to have to tillt the engine so that the tranny clears the passenger side tranny beam. also its easier this way especially if you dont have access to an engine lift. you can just use a jack(not a regular car jack though

 

i disagree, i have pulled about 6 outta the top, that includes d16's, b16, and b18's. takes about an hour or two. I pull out the axles and shiftlinkage then hook up with the cherry picker and undo the mounts bolts, then with the motor half out and hanging from the picker i pull off all the plugs and harness, makes it super easy to get at everything. But i guess everyone has there own method for doing things, right?

 

it really just depends on how you do it, Ive dropped engines out of th bottom and sometimes its a bitch, like the intake manifold will get caught on the steering rack or something little will catch. Ive never had a problem from anything on the top stopping it, just remove everything thats holding it down and yank that ****** right out of there plus each time you do something you learn a better technique or short cut. Anyhow I guess everyone has their own way of doing ****, I know that you can rent a cherry picker from alot of places for like 15 bucks and to me its well worth it.

 

depends on the car as well... crx you cant go down too much stuuf in the way. Civic you can go down with them

 

The top, use a cherry picker...

 

and DON'T forget to disconnect the shift linkage if you pull from the top!

I had a friend that droped it out the bottom of his hatch but he didn't do it on purpose it just kinda fell out.

The guy that owned it before him screwed it up pretty good though. That might of had something to do with it.

 

When I did my swap it did it out of the top and it was easy as pie. Depends on what tools you have. If you have a cherry picker than pull it out of the top. If you doing it on a lift or something than drop it out of the bottom.

I work at a Toyota dealer and I noticed when they remove engines they drop them out of the bottom because the Toyota engines are mounted to the subframe and than they just lower the car down and than un bolt the subframe and than lift the car up.

 

so noone thinks it will come out the front with the supports out?

 

yes it will come out that way too, ive actually done it once before, it would probably be the hardest of the 3 ways, if you cant get a cherry picker id just go out the bottom

 

you cant just leave the car on the ground and pull the motor out?

 

well you can but its alot easier said than done. It wont come straight out you have to turn it sideways to get it out and there isnt much room to work with in there, I guess if you got a couple big guys it wouldnt be too hard

 

I used a cherry picker from the top. It was easy. Took me about 2 hours. Most of the time was just removing the bolts.

 

Let's answer the original question...
"what the easiest way to remove the the tranny and motor?"

The easiest way is to pay someone to do it while you sip margaritas in the shade.

 

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When I dropped my motor out of the bottom of the car, I used my "engine holder" (see link above) and that made things very easy. I was able to move the motor in any direction so nothing would hit or catch on anything.

I've also pulled motors via the top of the car and I've always had problems. It usually takes 2-3 people to get a motor in and lots of finagling (sp?). I've broken a TPS sensor dropping a motor back in via the top, so that is why I switched to dropping motors out of the bottom of the car.

Its all personal preference. Some people like pulling motors via the top and others like dropping them via the bottom. This thread is just going to present both sides.