This started in pics of your garage thread, and I’m moving the discussion here not to muddy that thread, basically, my original question was:
Continuing the discussion:

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Honestly, I’m not sure I’m following how you guys are doing this with at most around 2’ clearance… OK, so you get the sucker loose and yanked up out of the engine bay (I’m assuming we’re talking just engine, not engine/tranny), and then what? Do you roll the car back to get the engine/crane out of the way or are you literally doing it from the side, say straddling one of the front tires with the legs of the engine stand?

Rolling it back in my case would be tough, since once the tires hit the last foot of the garage things get steep, FAST and I don’t think that any amount of people could push it back in again.

From the side… I’m not sure it will fit. I’m sure that there will be some monkeying around with boards under the tires to get the legs under the exhaust…, but a bigger issue is that the 2 car garage has the door to the house, off center on the front wall with maybe 5 steps up and I’m not sure that the engine crane would clear the steps, I’m actually pretty sure that they’d get in the way.

I’m only taking the engine from the parts car… the tranny and rear have been turned into molten piles of junk (modified stockers, not worth saving or salvaging/rebuilding). The new car is getting the engine out of the parts car (after I yank the engine/tranny from it), a 4L80e that I’ve built up for it, and a moser 9” with all the goodies.

The biggest reason for not doing it from underneath is that these are 3rd gens (my 4th gen is my “driver” sort of), and they have hardlines (especially brake lines) and linkages that are not conducive to doing it from underneath, they wrap around the engine bay above and below the K-member getting in the way. I’m tempted to try it for disassembling the parts car, since some of that could be cut I guess, and since I want the front suspension out of it anyway, the only problem would be working out the logistics where I don’t have to roll it back in or have it sitting around outside for more then a few hours (long story, I plan on cutting the roof off the car also).

 

Heh.. Texas is not Maryland. I’ve gotten notices from the HOA, which resulted in county and state inspectors coming out about MUCH lesser things, like for example, I have the rear section of the exhaust on my WS6 rigged with a 3 bolt flange and wing nuts so all I have to do is loosen those three wing nuts, push forward on the exhaust and the muffler and tailpipes pop right off the car. I’ve had that muffler/tailpipe section sitting in my driveway, against the garage door for a couple of hours on a Friday night while I headed out to test and tune which started one of those incidents.

I still can’t figure out how a partially assembled engine stand tucked under the nose of the parts car hasn’t gotten me into trouble recently.

As far as I can tell, for the most part the neighbors are fine with me, it’s the HOA officers that actually live across the county line (our little end of the neighborhood got tacked on to that HOA) that are insane.

 

well 3rd gens are even easier to do then 4 gens. lots more space in the eng. bay for pulling the eng. I put the front of the car up on stands, and remove that wheel if its in the way for roling around the cherry picker. you should have no problems fitting the eng/trans assembly out/and back in. I was wondering where you figured you only had 2 feet since Fbodys are around 16-17' something like that. how much floor space are your stairs robbing you of? like I said though. your SOL if you have 2 cars in there, and cant put one outside (or even partially outside) while your doin the actual pulling on both and reinstalling.

not sure what the problem is with temp. putting a car outside your garage is, but sounds like its time to move. I would never live in a neighborhood with that kindo of trouble just from having a car apart in your driveway. atleast not if I had a choice to move or not. I just built a new house last year, and when we were looking at diff. neighborhoods/houses that was a big issue for me. most new houses or neighborhoods are built in "associations". thats where basically there are set rules for the sub. that everyone must follow, or you could get ticketed. and this sounds like that sort of thing. you couldnt work on anything outside of your garage, no trailers unless you got a special pass. and thats only for a couple days, that sort of thing. I said F'that. associations are allowed to tell you if you could put up a fence, and what kind of fence it had to be.