[Shotimes] methods to swap my engine

[Dave Pillsbury]

There is not a good spot to lift the car in the front with the clip on. 
On my MB parts car I used the strut towers but it was going to scrap so 
I did not care. Across the unibody rails and a pair of jacks works 
pretty well. although you could fab up a piece of square tube run some 
holes into it and bolt it into the front subframe location and use the 
picker from that point.
Dave

Zach Leahy wrote:

>Ho about on your second to last option, put the subframe on some
>stands, or better yet lower it cautiously ont some rollers with your
>hois or jacks, and then use the engine hoist to pick up the front of
>the car.  bet that's a good idea.
>
>Z
>
>On 6/10/05, Dave Pillsbury <showerks@comcast.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>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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