I've done 20 or so Spridget engine pulls, which probably won't put me in the
top 10 on this list, but both together is much, much easier.
--- On Mon,
11/15/10, BJNoSHOV8 <bjshov8@tx.rr.com> wrote:
> From: BJNoSHOV8
<bjshov8@tx.rr.com>
> Subject: [Spridgets] Fwd: Re: disconnecting front motor
mounts?
> To: "Spridget" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, November
15, 2010, 6:52 PM
> I have pulled and installed a lot of
> engines in my day,
and we never
> pulled engine and transmission at the same time. I've
>
watched some of
> the car shows on TV and they always seem to install engines
> and
> transmissions as a unit. After watching them do this
> and having
>
problems with it that we never had when installing an
> engine by itself,
>
I've always wondered why they did it. My career as a
> mechanic was
>
working in my father's garage during high school and
> college. He has
> not
owned his garage for just over 50 years. I don't
> recall that I've
> ever
seen them pull engine and transmission out the top of
> a RWD car.
> Many
new cars have a subframe that you pull out the
> bottom and in that
> case
you pull engine/transmission/subframe/front suspension
> as a unit.
>
>
Reinstalling an engine with a manual transmission you have
> to get the
>
clutch disk to go onto the transmission input shaft, but we
> never seemed
>
to have any big problem doing this.
>
> Nevertheless... I've read on the
list where many
> people recommended
> installing them both together. From
looking at my car
> it seems that
> there is plenty of room around the trans.
to leave it in
> the car, but
> other than the weight it doesn't seem to be
too hard to
> install
> everything as a unit either. I don't know how long
>
before I am
> reinstalling everything so that is partly why I didn't want
>
to pull the
> trans out at this time. When I get ready for
> reassembly then
I will
> decide how to attempt it. Working in my garage at
> home is a lot
> different from working in my dad's garage with overhead
> electric hoist.
>
> This is a car that hasn't run in a long time and the engine
> doesn't
>
turn. I found water in the cylinders so I don't know
> if I will have to
>
get a new block or not. If I have to hunt for a new
> block then it might
>
be quite awhile before I am reassembling. The
> previous owner told us
>
that they were driving the car, and they decided to stop
> driving it and
>
they parked it behind their house. When I got it
> everything looked
>
complete and unmolested. I first discovered that the
> engine wouldn't
>
rotate so I pulled the head off and found water in some of
> the
>
cylinders. I tried break free and so forth but could
> not get the
> pistons
freed so I decided I would pull the engine and
> knock the pistons
> out one
at a time. Then I would be able to judge the
> condition of the
> block and
the pistons and go from there.
>
> > WAY easier to
>
> > get them back
in while
> together. On re installation of the engine
> lining up
> >
the tranny input shaft with
> the clutch is a cast iron B.I.T.C.H.
> with
the
> > tranny already in the car.
> I've done it both ways and will
NEVER
> do them
> > separately again. EVER.
>
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