Re: Swapping motors?

["Ryan Schuermann" <rts@nol.net>]

when dropping the engine down have a set of spare hands to guide it 
down or it will lopside and land on the oil pan for sure then just 
jack the car up enough to slip it out the side wheel well, with the 
tire off of course,else you either have to remove the rear motor 
mount bracket and lay it on its back or jack the car up really really 
high to slide out the front. if you have the head off it makes for a 
slightly ligher block, and if you drop the tranny first, you can lay 
it on its back and slide it out the front.

Ryan


> You can most certainly drop the engine out the bottom and then lift the car.
> This may the best way to do it in your case. I often prefer to pull engines out
> the bottom anyway- this is the way to do it with a lift. I happen to have a
> chain falls, so I pull engines out the top with it when at home.
>     Good luck!
>     -Josiah
> 
> Salvatore Guzzo wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >
> > Sal
> >
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