Anyone care to share how they remove and install their engine? Specifically b-series, in my case a 2nd gen teg. I've had the motor in and out countless times and still have not perfected the final act of getting it in and out of the engine bay. I'm thinking about takeing the tranny off and putting the engine in first with the lift, then putting the tranny on from the bottom. My main problems are the rear mount and the side tranny mount. Does anyone bring the entire thing up from the bottom?

 

take off all the front and side mounts and position the chain with less slack on the driverside so that when you lift up the driverside will come up higher than tranny side


[Modified by salbaje, 6:31 AM 10/1/2002]

 

Do you leave the rear mount attached to the engine when lowering it in?

 

I once took my engine out by lifting the car off the engine. ie: putting blocks under the motor... undoing everything and lifting the car up!

The reverse doesn't work to well

I think it was easier for me to put the engine in with the tranny attached becuase I didn't have to lift and align the tranny in the engine bay

 

i always drop motors out the bottom and put them in from the bottom... i just think its so much easier... of course u need a lift though... i generally taken everything that needs to be taken off the top first... (wiring harness; ps/ac if applicable) radiator... etc...

then take out all the bottom stuff; axles, shift linkage, those two 19's from the rear mount and the two 14's for the 2 side mounts on the bottom, undo the exhaust... etc...

back to the top... with the wheels off put a rolling cart of some sort under the motor... a couple inches off the ground for the cart is fine... lower the car until the motor is actually on the car (the back wheels will be on the ground and with the front wheels off the rotors will be almost to the ground... take out the last bolt for the rear mount and all u should have left is u did everything else is the tranny mount and the drivers side mount...

considering the motor is on the cart already... take off the nuts/bolts to the mounts and the motor will remain sitting on the cart... raise the car (watch for anything caught and any possible stuff u may have forgotten) and there u go... engines out...

putting it back in is the same just in reverse... bolt up the two side mounts and work from there

hth

 

Life's much easier with a lift !

Just to add... when taking from the top... save yourself some hassle and pull the bracket from the rear mount.

 

As much as I'd like my own lift, that's not really an option right now.

So it looks like my options are to perfect putting the thing in all together from the top, or put the engine in from the top with the engine lift, then put the tranny in from the bottom.

If I take all of the mounts off I can usually get the motor into place fairly easily. The problem is than getting the rear mount and the side tranny mount into place. Any thoughts on those mounts?