Day 2

    After some open heart surgery the autopsy will be on saturday but we successfully pulled the motor. Thanks to Bro. Ed White for letting me borrow his Cherry picker, Ha it looked alot smaller when it was in pieces.

        

   So we removed all the lower mounting brackets and this one just wasn't budging even with the epic breaker bar. then i tore the whole rubber mount apart "Oops wrong bolt" "dude it's this one" crap. and again I leaked power steering fluid every where again and of corse coolant too. I need to make a kitty litter run to the store. And after seeing it in a magazine we had to try riding the crane. 

It took like 20 minutes to put this thing together it was like a super heavy lego set that your friend lost the instructions to. 

Quotes:
Me: Dad i just finished pulling the motor!!!
Dad: It's a 1/4 past one you need to get to bed.
Me: Are you serious?

Julian: Dude you tore the whole motor mount.
Me: Oops wrong Bolt. 

Heres an artsy shot of the crane eye ballin' the motor. I quote Ed: "you can just through the chains on anything thats attached to the motor" ok. Dad: k make sure you put that on at least 1/4" in. bolts on 4 corners of the motor!

      Obvious i chose the first. Luckly the removal went very smoothly thanks to the shop that installed the motor when it was put in, there were two or three huge bolts missing off the back of the transaxle mount. 

     For some reason a lip on the transmission kept on getting stuck under the transmission mount and that was annoying so we dropped the motor then lifted up. 

        So for fun here's a picture of Julian Riding the crane and a pic when i got fed up with the hoist chains and just decided to pick to motor up outta the bay with my bare hands. 

       So just a few more pics and then a post later this week about what happened inside the motor. We got bets on  broken rod and broken rod bolt. I personally think it was bent then broke so we'll see Ivan is stoked outta his mind to see the inside of a motor and hold a piston. 

Day 1

Well due to a delay in acquiring an engine hoist it took two days to pull the motor but thats ok. So Ivan and Julian stopped by and on the first day the engine bay was gutted, all fluids drained, the harness unplugged and the axels removed. which meant taking a special trip to the AutoZone to get a massive two foot breaker bar, a 32mm axel socket and a ball joint separator. The ball joint separator was a life saver. I kinda want to keep the breaker bar. And I spilled every fluid in the entire car on the floor. I hate power steering fluid with a passion.  

With Ivan and Julian the bay was looking empty fast and we didn't break or lose anything. nice.  The floor was just power washed the night before. but you cant tell. haha the Fork bolts were tighter than the axel nuts. hmm. 

So after the ball joints were separated the axels came right out. 

Thats the long left axel it almost fell on my face but julian saved saved me. And thats me trying to separate a ball joint.

Cleaning out the Garage

I was sure the garage was going to be a dump for the rest of time but luckly the U had a one week long Fall break and the entire break was devoted to cleaning the garage and towing cars up and down the driveway but the result was freakin sweet. it was transformed from a dump into a man cave. A magic factory also my new favorite room. 

All ready to get wrenched. tools and some tunes. and a new cushy creeper with a pillow!