Jay Laifman wrote:
> I had some more progress on swapping my SV running gear into the new S3. I
> did as I said I would. I pulled my Alpine cross member (wheels, tires,
> brakes and all), engine and transmission fully together out the bottom of
> the car. It went very smoothly - except for one warning below.
>
> I put the front tires on two car dollies, and put a dolly under the
> transmission with a stack of wood between the two. I also made struts
> between the dollies so that they were effectively one piece and would not
> separate. I did this because I was warned that the engine mounts are very
> flexible and I was worried that the cross member would push the front two
> dollies forward and the engine would drop down. Fortunately this did not
> happen.
>
> Unfortunately, the cross member rolled forward around the axis of the
> wheels, all the way down to the ground. I was able to quickly jack it back
> up and keep a floor jack under it. The motor mounts really did twist.
> Fortunately, they were new and elastic enough to not break. I figure their
> life span was shortened big time. But they remained fully intact.
>
> The rest was a piece of cake. Jacked up the car with a large floor jack
> just forward of the center of the cross member. Pulled and rolled out the
> whole thing. Rolled it over to the other car, pushed it in. Lowered the
> car and popped back in the 12 bolts.
>
> No scratched paint. No first motion shaft alignment problems (or scratches
> on the clutch face from the first motion shaft).
>
> Jay
Jay:
Does this mean that if you had taken wheels off and supported crossmember on a
2x12 plank, there would have been no problems?
Ron Tebo
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