[Shotimes] methods to swap my engine

[Dave Pillsbury]

At some point your going to lose the engine by doing all this 
transfering from brace to cherry picker. You have alot of options you 
can use. Remove the engine from the top and leave the trans in an MTX 
car this is pretty easy. do everything like you were going to do a 
clutch and then pull the bellhousing bolts wiring, fuel lines 
and.battery tray. In my case I had to do it this way to keep my fully 
charged R-12 system intact. Next up is the harder but doable pull the 
engine and trans out of the top.This is a real PITA to do and usually 
requires a few friends to help move things along and get it unstuck. 
Next up for the driveway pull. Pull the engine trans and subframe as one 
unit.Basically what John said but without the hoist. This is going to 
require a pair of jacks and some 4x4 timbers and a pair of moving 
dollies! Disconnect everything use the picker to hold the whole damn 
thing in the air lower everything onto moving dollies or some sort of 
wheeled platform make sure you have the car at the full height of your 
jack. Then the 4x4's or what have you come in with the jack on the 
unibody rails and jacks down and stacked safley and lift the body oh 
yeah chock the hell ouf of the back wheels. lower the picker with 
everything attached onto rolling platform! I know a guy that did it that 
way that had never pulled and engine in his life and he had it out in an 
afternoon with the Y pipe attached! Now after pulling a few SHO motors 
and doing some engine swaps this next way IS THE BEST WAY TO DO IT. Pay 
someone that's done a bunch of them to do the swap. It only hurts when 
you open your wallet!
Dave

Ian Fisher wrote:

>Hi
>I was planning on swapping my engine by dropping the
>subframe and pulling the trans (I need to swap
>subframes anyway). So up until this point, I'd use an
>engine support brace as if I was doing a clutch job
>(if I can locate the shared NJ brace-Bill?). Now, I
>assume I can attach the chains holding the motor to a
>hoist, take up slack in the chain, remove the brace
>and pull the motor?
>
>What about installing the engine? It seems a bit
>tricky to have to transfer the engine from the hoist
>to an engine brace. I'm also working with limited
>space if I do this in my driveway so I will need to
>keep the hoist in front of the car which may interfere
>with moving the subframe around, jackstands, etc. IOW,
>I will probably need to reuse the brace for
>installation so that I can move the hoist out of the
>way to re-install the trans and subframe.. (I'm
>feeling the pain in my back and arms just thinking
>about this)
>
>Ideas?
>thanks
>Ian
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