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.