My God Bones, what have I done?, Busted my engine-drop cherry Options

[mudfoot76]

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Finally got around to working on the teener again tonight. I was trying to find a local source for the 12 point tool to remove the CV bolts, but ended up getting it from Pelican. One thing their article doesn't mention is that when I pryed the joints apart, these thin metal/cardboard gaskets fell out (in pieces). Is this normal?

Once those were apart, we double and triple checked to make sure all the wires, hoses, etc were disconnected. Looks good, so we thought. Place the furniture cart, position everything, slowly lower, unbolt engine and trans mount bolts (those engine bar bolts were a PITA!!!) *plop* Start to try and roll it out, and we notice we forgot to disconnect the flapper wires (D'OH!). OK, 8mm wrench, done.

Now the only problem is that our floor jacks cannot lift the car high enough for the carbs (44idf) to fit underneath everything. We tried to rotate the drivetrain around some but no luck. My helpers were my brother and a co-worker, and both of them had to leave at 10pm. We placed jackstands in strategic supporting areas (and left the floorjacks too just to be safe) and they left. I didn't want to do anything else to the car in this state without anyone else around to call for help in the event of an accident so we will resume tomorrow. Either I need to find better floorjacks with higher lift, or the carbs have to be removed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (or both? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) )

I'll be hosting an engine installation BBQ when it is time to put the mofo back in the car. Aligning the sheetmetal into the rubber gasket, I imagine, will be teh suXXorz, but easier if there are other ppl around who have done this before.

[mudfoot76]

Thanks to everyone's advice, I finally got the motor out from under the car.





I do not recall seeing an engine serial number that looked like this one. I know that all TIV cases are essentially the same, but I'm curious as to how this one started life.

The blue hoses were for the external oil cooler. I'd like to get all that stuff disconnected from the case, but it looks like I have to take off all the cooling tin?

Some unsettling things I've discovered during this process:
1. My exhaust hanger bracket is only held on by one hex nut instead of two, and the studs coming out of the back of the transmission are drastically different lengths.. This doesn't seem right.

2. All of the nuts securing the carbs were only finger-tight. And one carb was missing the outer two nuts. Could these have worked their way off, or were they just never properly tightened?