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Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Fifth day, and my only goal was getting the engine on its mounts. After racking my brain to get this accomplished the day before by myself, I decided to ask for help. I had a friend come over to handle the transmission from underneath the car.
My biggest problem was that I was having trouble getting the motor mounts to move back far enough. If I pushed the engine back, the intake manifold and valve cover hit the firewall. The reason for this was that the entire engine/tranny was tipped too far with the engine up and the tranny down. This caused the motor mounts to rotate forward, and the intake/valve cover backward.
On top of that, the mounts I had connected to with chains to lift the engine caused a downward rotation of the engine on the passenger side.
Solution: I needed to push the transmission up, while lowering the engine, and twist the engine clockwise (looking at it from the front). All of this theoretically needed to happen at the same time. This is exactly what we tried to do. In addition to this action, here are a few more tips. We mounted the motor mounts to the engine, and dropped them into the holes in the frame. We started with the passenger side mount, put a bolt on just enough to keep it from coming out but still allowing some play, then did the driver side. At this time I have not mounted the transmission, so no info on that yet.
My biggest problem was that I was having trouble getting the motor mounts to move back far enough. If I pushed the engine back, the intake manifold and valve cover hit the firewall. The reason for this was that the entire engine/tranny was tipped too far with the engine up and the tranny down. This caused the motor mounts to rotate forward, and the intake/valve cover backward.
On top of that, the mounts I had connected to with chains to lift the engine caused a downward rotation of the engine on the passenger side.
Solution: I needed to push the transmission up, while lowering the engine, and twist the engine clockwise (looking at it from the front). All of this theoretically needed to happen at the same time. This is exactly what we tried to do. In addition to this action, here are a few more tips. We mounted the motor mounts to the engine, and dropped them into the holes in the frame. We started with the passenger side mount, put a bolt on just enough to keep it from coming out but still allowing some play, then did the driver side. At this time I have not mounted the transmission, so no info on that yet.
I had a late start to my third day, so I didn't have enough time to finish the two things I had planned to do: Oil pan swap and brake booster swap. Instead I only finished the oil pan swap.
On my fourth day I got the brake booster swapped (minor frustration), and prepped the M50 for insertion to the E30. It's a tight fit getting that thing in without having the front clip off, but I managed to get it in with minimal fuss. I recommend removing the condenser from the car, or at least moving it out of the way. Also, I had the power steering pump removed, as well as the AC compressor. It would have been ideal to have the AC compressor bracket removed from the engine, but I did not and decided to go for it. I ended up with some scraping (not happy about) but nothing major.
On my fourth day I got the brake booster swapped (minor frustration), and prepped the M50 for insertion to the E30. It's a tight fit getting that thing in without having the front clip off, but I managed to get it in with minimal fuss. I recommend removing the condenser from the car, or at least moving it out of the way. Also, I had the power steering pump removed, as well as the AC compressor. It would have been ideal to have the AC compressor bracket removed from the engine, but I did not and decided to go for it. I ended up with some scraping (not happy about) but nothing major.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
The Start
I started my swap yesterday. A little garage organization to started the day, followed by jumping right in. I began at 10:30am, finished at 7pm with only lunch to slow me down. Today I started at 10am and by 2pm I had the old engine out.
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