Engine Removal

[barks944]

Just about finished disconnecting everything from my engine in preperation to remove it. Can I remove the engine upwards or do I have to drop it down and jack the car up. It looks feasible but I'm not sure If the sump will clear the crossmember when lifting it out. The problem is I don't have a way to jack the car high enough to slide the engine out right now.

 

[tref]

I've tried both, and I don't think it is worth the hassle of dropping the flywheel and bellhousing in the car in order to lift it. Use the engine hoist to lift the front of the car high enough to give you clearance to drop the engine down, or, drop the engine and then raise the car higher afterwards. Oh, and dropping the cross member, for the sake of undoing four bolts, drop the steering rack from the cross-member - it is a lot lighter to remove the two components seperately, and a lot easier to reconeect to the steering shft with the rack loose. Tref.

 

[barks944]

Thanks for the reply. How did you attach the hoist to the front of the car?

 

[tref]

I didn't, I used a jack! I seem to recall a few blocks of wood were required with the jack. How-ever, I know that I ended up lifting the car off the jack-stands once when liftying the engine back in., so I guess you could lift the car by using the engine lifting points. how-ever, concern over engine mounts would mean that I would prefer to rope around the two front chassis rails.

 

[tref]

oh, in case you haven't already, dizzy cap and rotor arm technically don't need to come off, but make a huge difference if difference if you do!

 

[DivineE]

Just to confirm official factory procedure is to lower it out of the bottom but is 'does' come out the top too, it's just more fiddly.

 

[os951]

W always drop it. Just raise car about 60cm.

Another case

 

[Mike_Pollock]

Remove the crossmember drop the engine on to a nice flat piece of wood (old door?), use old seatbelts around the reinserted crossmember bolts and the engine hoist to lift the car up and slide the engine out through a wheel arch. Thats how I did mine. Mike

 

[barks944]

Thanks for the advice all, Olli is that you wearing a nice white shirt (well it was once) while removing an engine?!

 

[os951]

No it's not me.It's my friend Pete who does it with style. He's a pilot (flies Airbus A340-300) and re-use old uniform shirts at garage [] I usually take these pictures, so i can be anonymous []

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: os951 I usually take these pictures, so i can be anonymous []

That's always the best way []

 

[Mike_Pollock]

I TAKE pics too![] Mike

 

[barks944]

Seem to have lost my locking wheel nut key! What a nightmare, the nut is in a deep recess too which makes it a nightmare to get at. Anyone had to deal with this problem before? I dont think I can get the nut off the stud without the proper key. Maybe have to drill the studs out... I know where the nuts were bought so I might be able to find out which type they are.

 

[tref]

So long as you can get the ball joint undone on the steering rack I suspect you can continue with the engine drop without removing the wheels!

 

[tref]

I have removed them in the past by hammering on an old, slightly too small socket.

 

[barks944]

Did that but the top of the nut just sheared off! Looks like it was designed week to stop this kind of thing.

 

[Mike_Pollock]

You can just undo the wishbone front inner on the crossmember , which should give clearance to remove the crossmember and remove the engine through the opposite wheelarch. Mike Edit - sorry - getting confused having barbie - may nee to remove both inner mounts of wishbone and use engine hoist to lift front of car and slide engine out under the bumper. .