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LS1 Engine Removal, Top or Bottom ???
Staging Lane
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 75
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From: Ironton, Ohio
i just droped mine out through the bottom of my 2002 ss, just take your grounds loose and wiring harness loose from the body and computer and throw it on top of the motor while droping it down, you can unplug the wiring from the motor when you drop the motor out.....
Im sure it was fun completely disassembling the engine inside the car. Ive done this before through the bottom, so easy. You dont have to take anything off the engine or the car. Simple unbolt and drop. ( a few things need unbolting but common sense.) And coming out the top, im sure its fun crawling around under the car to try and get it lined up. How many people does that take? No way id take it through the top. ...way more work.
Theres also those guys who like to build model ships inside glass bottles...lol.
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i did it last night through the top. I had a buddy make a plate like qtp sells. We just used the valley cover for a pattern. The heads stayed on only think i took off was the accessories intake an valve covers . The hardest part was the two bellhousing bolts on the drivers side have to get them from underneath the car. we loosened the two bolts on the passenger side of the tranny cross member and took the two on the drivers side out.. its cake to get those two bellhouseing bolts out once you do that with a long extension or two... man that plate pulled the motor right out of there in like 10 min...now getting the exhaust off lol was like a 45 min job damn y pipe
I took it out the top. Was a peice of cake. Didnt have to bleed the brakes when I was done either. Wasnt the first motor I've taken out.
Maybe if your handi-capped you have issues with going out the top. Took 5 minutes to drop it in. Lining up the mounts is a peice of cake... unless your an idiot.
to each his own, if you like dropping the suspension and re-aligning and bleeding brakes then thats your thing.... but dont dis people who dont see the value in adding extra work. I dont know of any mechanics personaly that drop it out the bottom. I know of a person or two on here who did it but none of the mechanics I've worked with would do it that way.
Maybe if your handi-capped you have issues with going out the top. Took 5 minutes to drop it in. Lining up the mounts is a peice of cake... unless your an idiot.
to each his own, if you like dropping the suspension and re-aligning and bleeding brakes then thats your thing.... but dont dis people who dont see the value in adding extra work. I dont know of any mechanics personaly that drop it out the bottom. I know of a person or two on here who did it but none of the mechanics I've worked with would do it that way.
Viper, why did you use both sides of the chain in the front istead of diagnolly front to back? Did you need that much angle to clear? or was there just not enough room to get a chain way back there?
First time doing it, found it easy to maneuver for us. I imagine the QTP plate method is easier. The above pictures are motor going in; here is motor coming out. I'm guessing there are easier ways than what we chose to attach to.
I took it out the top. Was a peice of cake. Didnt have to bleed the brakes when I was done either. Wasnt the first motor I've taken out.
Maybe if your handi-capped you have issues with going out the top. Took 5 minutes to drop it in. Lining up the mounts is a peice of cake... unless your an idiot.
to each his own, if you like dropping the suspension and re-aligning and bleeding brakes then thats your thing.... but dont dis people who dont see the value in adding extra work. I dont know of any mechanics personaly that drop it out the bottom. I know of a person or two on here who did it but none of the mechanics I've worked with would do it that way.
Maybe if your handi-capped you have issues with going out the top. Took 5 minutes to drop it in. Lining up the mounts is a peice of cake... unless your an idiot.
to each his own, if you like dropping the suspension and re-aligning and bleeding brakes then thats your thing.... but dont dis people who dont see the value in adding extra work. I dont know of any mechanics personaly that drop it out the bottom. I know of a person or two on here who did it but none of the mechanics I've worked with would do it that way.
My son and I have done it several times out the top. After the first time it is easy as pie. Only problem I have is bugging my friend to charge up my AC every time I put it back together. Plus space is a premium if you are in a two car garage with one side full of the wife's stuff.
I pulled it out the top 6 times now.... drop ac comp to the side and tie it up same with power steering.... leave long tube headers in the car still in spot hooked up to exhaust.. take off intake and leave t56 not even dropping cross member or exhaust...i unbolt mounts from block before i lift motor.... takes me and a buddy about an hour.... like i said 6 times now.... in the last 6 months.... sux to be me.... but at least its easy
