Took a 3.5 hour ride up to Cary for the weekend to try and get the motor swap done with Nick. The key word in that sentence was "try". We had every intention finishing today with the new motor in place, but due to a late night out last night which really killed the motivation for today, plus not being able to find the right size pilot tool for aligning the clutch, we didn't get the new block installed. Not to mention it was in the mid 90's and stupid humid, so there were a lot of breaks taken to cool off. Anyways, to the pics of today:
Straps in place:
Shortly later the hood made a good effort to decapitate us, so we decided to try and take it all the way off. An honest effort was made to properly remove the cable so we could put it back on like it was later, but Nick quickly lost patience for the dumb set up of it and decided to cut the stupid thing off and install hood pins at a later date:
One of the final bolts to remove, and of course it's in a spot that where I could only get about 1/8 of a turn at a time on it. Half an hour of this later and it was finally out:
Pretty sure the rest of the drivers side motor mount should be surrounding this bushing...
Yup!!
About to pull the motor out. At this point the cross member had been unbolted to allow the motor to move up and down easier. Neither one of us thought far enough ahead on that plan to realize we'd then be playing a game of drive-train jenga. Trying to figure out the easiest way to get the motor and only the motor out here:
Just about out:
Nick posing for his lady friend that was kind enough to be our paparazzi during the removal stage:
Removal in process:
Finally out and trying to move it into a place that would be out of the way of everybody and everything:
Use your imagination and picture the new block here:
The offending slave cylinder that has been a headache for the last several months....and neither of us have overly high hopes for it this time around either
It's a lot easier to work on the slave cylinder when there's no motor in the way and you can use the track bar as a chair:
Wish we could have got the new block in today, but with out being able to properly center the clutch before hand that wasn't possible. With that said, we still got a fair amount done for a Sunday.
Looks good Nick!
Gotta whore out the cart a little more.
I had a bad feeling about replacing the o-ring on that slave, and now I'll be pulling the trans once again. My Crawl chances just went to very slim. Anybody got a lead on an external bellhousing?
