SV: Swapping motors?

["Roland Johansson" <scirocco@mail.bip.net>]

Placing the engine/tranny on a small stand (small wheels is nice
but nice arm muscles or a friend is working to), best is about
20-25 cm over ground, and lift up car with a jack and a piece of
wood under the firewall. Roll/drag motor under in place and
start lower car. You will have to adjust motor some times during
lowering of car but this way you CAN do it yourself if you have
problems finding helping friends. Time to get motor in the car
should be less than two hours, then some hours for exhaust,
water plumbing, electrical etc.
This way is much simplier than lifting the motor up.



Roland Johansson
Scirocco 1,6l TIC -82
Http://hem.passagen.se/toker


> To those of you who have swapped engines , how did you do it. 
Do I need an
> engine hoist or is there another way to do it.  An engine
hoist will cost
> me about $70 for a day.  I was tryin to think about other ways
of
> installing the motor.  For one I thought of joining the block
and the
> tranny, list the car up and then rolling it under the car. 
The other idea
> someone else gave me was to have two people hold the
motor/tranny with a
> chain wrapped around the motor and a bar.  What would be the
easiest and
> economical methopd of doing this.  I have not entirely put the
motor
> together.  That is, the water pump, etc have not been mounted
yet.  What
> shall I do?


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