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Techy's engine pull progress thread

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

Nice set of pics. The first time pulling the engine we missed disconnecting one of the solid power steering hoses and bent it lifting the engine out.

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

Excellant post brother....Keep um coming....:D

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

Some more pictures. I just finished cleaning up the super-mess we created when we were pulling the motor, and then all my tools that had been thrown into one bag for a trip to U Pull R Parts. It turns out that they got a 92 SVX in about a month ago, but it was almost complete. Probably because it's been so darn cold up here until today.

It was a huge mud pit, and I ended up using the door cards as a step stool to stay above the 3" of water that was right in front of the car.

Anyway, here are the pictures. First is a picture of my spoils :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull008.jpg

Here's what a bit of elbow grease and a lot of noxious chemicals can do
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull004.jpg

Engine mounted on the stand
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull005.jpg

And here are pictures of my old motor mounts. They were completely separated, and came off the car like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull003.jpg

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

If you wrote a writeup for removing the engine I'd love you........ no homo. Seriously because I need/want to pull the engine in my Barcelona, but not too sure where to start. Seriously please do, I really want do this, I have a plus, no ABS module in the way.

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

good documentation, the toughest part imo is the ps lines on the crossmember.

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Originally Posted by jakea (Post 592047)

good documentation, the toughest part imo is the ps lines on the crossmember.

Royal PITA

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

Well, two steps forward, one step back.

It seems that I broke my second thing. The mass of EGR stuff on the back of the EG33 was rusted to hell and I managed to not only shear of 4 frozen bolts, but also accidentally break a plastic thing that a hose fits over on one of the valves. So I'm working on a way to rectify this problem.

I have a few hoses that will need replacing because they were totally trashed and got cut to remove.

I managed to remove one of the heads tonight, and I think I did it without breaking anything more than the EGR stuff.

I've got a few questions but will put them in a thread in the technical sub-forum where they belong.

Anyway, here are the pictures from today.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull002-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull003-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull010-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull011-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull013-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull015-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull016-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull018-1.jpg

Motor mount plate before cleaning
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull019-1.jpg

After cleaning!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ePull020-1.jpg

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

Today was nothing too special.

I slept in today and ran some errands. But I did get some work done. I figured I'd get to cleaning the garage out so I can find tools again ;) That took a couple of hours.

Then on to the work
First was cleaning out the throttle body. Made a pretty big difference.

Second, it was on to pulling the other head.

So yeah, here are some pictures.

Throttle body prior to cleaning:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull026.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...inePull027.jpg

Now after cleaning
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...svxday3002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...svxday3003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...svxday3004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...svxday3005.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...svxday3011.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...svxday3013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...svxday3015.jpg

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

It's always amazing to see just how good things can look with 17 years of grime cleaned off. Are you going to take the short block down any further, or just refurbish from here?

Re: Techy's engine pull progress thread

Subscribed! Loving the pics. feed us hungry picture viewers more on this!
(one day, Yori will be cleaned like this)