I got the engine out of my car. What an endeavor.

1)I used a Larin hoist and engine stand. I took it out with tranny attached. The B18C1 lifting points are one one the back of the block and one on the tranny!
So, how do you easily get the tranny off then? I landed up dropping the engine to the floor and wrapped a cable around the top coolant exit point on the engine to support the engine so I could get the tranny off. Is there another way? Is it easier to drop the tranny before lifting the engine out the car? Then where would you attach the 2nd lifting point?

2) What a bitch getting the engine to the stand. Our engines are so small I couldn't get the stand close enough between the legs of the hoist to easily secure the stand to the tranny bolting points on the engine. I landed up wedging the stand in there over the back legs of the hoist, securing it with some help and then backing the stand off the lift. Now I dread getting it back on the hoist!

Any better ways?

 

1)you can use a bolt from the transmission and just screw it into any hole in the block (where its supposed to go through tranny, just minus the transmission). i would say its easier to loosen all the bolts on the transmission while its still in the car (bolted to the engine/frame. then just pull it off once it gets out of the car.

2) no idea.

 

but is there another good point besides the tranny lift point to raise the engine so you can pull the tranny off the engine once they are lifted out?

 

Just set them on the floor and seperate them.

 

I know this is not the place and I appologize. GruvyTune, email me JAL1639@aol my wife is from Ithaca. She went to Spencer/VanEtten. Thanks. I appologize again for this off post.

 

Now you know my dilemna every day. I work at a junk yard and I have to lift those supid Honda engines every day with a forklift and it is so hard with it only having one lift point and all. Every other car manufacturer puts two or even three but Honda's only have one.

Anyways Sometimes the bolt works and sometimes i wrap the chain around the thermostat housing like you did, you can also take the motor mount off of the crossmember and use those, but the bottom line is, Honda=cheapskates.

 

your SUPPOSED to lift it from the starter bolt or a transmission bolt.
not around the thermostat or intake manifold.

 

the safest mounting points are the top transmission bellhousing bolt near the block code, then on the head, one through the power steering bracket, and the other is directly behind the head, both on the timing belt side.

 

You can use the top distributor bolt hole as well. You have to remove the distributor first though.

The engine actually balances very well if you use that point with the one behind the head on the driver side.

 

The easiet way to do it is simply drop it out the bottom. Jack up the car, put a jack with a piece of metal or wood on it under the motor and tranny, and then lower the jack.
Easier with a lift ( I loved my Auto class) but seen it done, the pain is getting the car up high enough. My Si motor had a bolt on the front and back of the head that I screwed into. My ZC did only have one though. AC compressor bolt did the job.