Dropping the engine for the first time Options

[funboy30189]

Im gonna try and drop the engine out of the car this week. It will be my first time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) , what special tools are required that will make it easier? beside having someone else do it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[JeffBowlsby]

To me, the safest and easiest way, short of having access to a car lift with a wide bay is to elevate the car and drop the drivetrain out the bottom, while the chassis is secure. The single support balancing on a jack could easily lose balance and drop, especially when rolling the drivetrain on a jack. Drop it and you will break something expensive.

Use threaded rods with big wing nuts to replace the two bolts on the ends of the engine bar to lower the drivetrain onto a furniture dolly. The car chassis is always solid and the threaded rods control the up/down action. I cannot picture how a jack could be used centered under the drivetrain, to lower it onto a dolly also centered under th drivetrain anyway..the jack and dolly conflict. Use a jack only at the trans for 3-point support of the drivetrain as it is being lowered/raised.