Hot Rods 1 man engine swap on slopes drwy 63 Impala

Why do you have to resort to using all the blue language...???

 

I take the blue writing pointing out
Specific directions to Follow,
& think about ??

 

This thread reminds me of my neighbor, who owns a shop specializing in BMWs. I pulled the 3.5 inline 6 from my old ´88 735i, and I did it the way I was used to, working on old American cars. Prop the hood open, unbolt the rad, trans, torque converter, undo the wiring, attach two chains and lift it out with the cherry picker. The hoods on these olds Beemers open to the front, so it was a bit of a h***le to get the engine out over the fender, so I had to remove one front wheel to make room for the cherry picker. When he saw what I had done, he said in all confindence: You can´t do it that way! Those engines go out the bottom! And he said that even while he was standing right next to this engine that had come out on top. The correct procedure would have been:
Put the car on a lift
Remove exhaust system, drive shaft, transmission
Then disconnect the front brake flex hoses
Next disconnect the engine wiring loom
After that remove the 4 bolts that hold the front x-Member to the frame
Lower the car so far that the front x- member can sit on a moveable workbench or trolley
Open the strut nuts from the top
Raise the car on the lift and VIOLA! There your engine sitting on the frontend ***embly.....

I´m glad to this day, that I hadn´t heard about the correct procedure. With my limited skills and equipment it was much easier to get to engine out to the top, hahahaha

I hope he never reads this, but I also have caught him and his co-workers pulling their BMW engines out the top lately....
My two cents to the OP: Don´t overthink, take your time, think about the logical next step and don´t ask too many people, because that way you get too many confusing opinions which all may be true and applyable under certain conditions. Trust yourself and see what happens.

 

park it sideways to the driveway slope maybe.....side to side slope might not be as big a problem as far as leveling, shimming , keeping control of stuff.

 

I think there's over thinking here. He's got the room. if, If, IF the motor needs to come out, then:

1. Move the other car to where the wife's is. The wife has to park behind it, outside, for a day, **** it up princess

2. Pull the project halfway in with the cherry picker in front.

3.Lift the motor, push car out the drive into the street, using the brakes.

4.Back the truck up the drive, load the motor into the truck.

5.Put wife's car back, then decide which car you want to be in the garage with the wife's until the motor is ready.

-rick

 

This guy and this whole page is really silly, please remove it before somebody hurts themself , their car , the bricks on the driveway or a neighbor.

 

Or a jet engine falls off and hits the car because of the cobblestone and angle

 

That's a real issue with a car turned around nose out. The open garage door will often be too close over the cherry picker to get enough height to pull the engine. Plus the car will likely be against the back of the garage so you have to wrestle the cherry picker out towards the open door instead of pushing the car back once it's up in the air. And if you close the door to gain clearance then you end up not being able to pull the cherry picker back with the door down.
Unless it's a pretty deep garage this rarely works out. Been there' and tried this.

 

My little single car shop is only 20 ft. deep, so had to push the car out partway to setup the cherry picker. Then get the engine raised up and push the car back inside to be under it. I pushed and pulled the cherry picker a little, but not easy by myself since the floor system doesn't allow it to roll easily. It's easier to move the car than the cherry picker!


Once the engine/trans was located I fabricated all the motor mounts and trans crossmember and welded them in. Pushed the car partway out again, and took the cherry picker apart and put it back in my storage building.
I built my entire car in this 10'x20' shop by myself. I did have a little help getting the car into the shop when I first began the build. I used my Suzuki quad to pull it around back to the shop and had two friends kicking the tires to steer it as no steering column. Once it got halfway in I ran the quad out the side door and we pushed it inside. After that it was all on me, as it usually is on my builds.
Did the same method with my two previous builds in the same little shop.

 

I pledge to never open this thread again.
I want to keep my respect. Bye Bye

 

CHICKEN!!!! LOL

Ben

 

OP needs a "sticky" index for this car.

 

We might as well close up shop and wait to die I guess

 

A shame for sure but I'm thinking every person on the planet has seen the YouTube videos.
137 times!

 

I stopped watching the news 15 years ago. Best decision I ever made.

 

But that would surely impact the Tesla access, already specified by the op?

 

Yep. No need to jack up the rear

 

This will also help to negate the danger that the wife's Tesla will burst into flames and burn the house down, even if it is just for that one and only day.
If we're really lucky, the Tesla will get taken out by the falling jet engine.....

 

I have not read anywhere on the multiple threads, about pulling the valve covers and checking out the valve train. I suggested it while back on Eth727 other thread. I’d take the pushrods out, one by one, and roll them on a piece of gl***. Place it right back in where it came from and don’t flip it over. Put it right back in there like it came out. Check the rockers for wear, look for broken valve springs. Are the rockers going up and down the same height while it’s turning over. I wouldn’t do anything in the driveway. I got turned in to CODE ENFORCEMENT this Monday morning. Had a vehicle parked halfway on the driveway, two wheels in the dirt. Luckily no wrenching was going on at this time. He seen the engine hoist and got an instant hard on. Asking what the hoist was for. I told him it was to help get the mother-in-law in and out of the car. I told I would just park all my **** out in the street. Everything legal. I told we got the wheels out of the dirt and into the street. He said he didn’t have a problem with that. I said you don’t have a problem with it , but the street sweeper, the branch and leaf pick up crew, and the city bus drivers , trash trucks

will. He got the final word in of course, MAKE SURE YOU MOVE THEM EVERY 72 HOURS!!!

 

The time incorrect , but ,here comes the fuzz

 

^^^ Man, I'm staying in Arkansaw.

 

When I was 17 I blew up the engine in my Chevelle. I didn’t have an engine hoist so I pulled it out once piece at a time. True story.

 

^ I pulled a 283 out of a '60 Impala using a piece of chain and an eight foot 4x4...all in the dirt.

 

Are we still talking about this?

 

I willed a Red Ram hemi out of a Dodge station wagon...

 

My students got a good laugh reading through this.

 

One of the sorriest cars I had was an MGA when I was still a kid. Pulled the engine and trans out together from the ceiling of parents clean garage. Some inner bodywork up in the front by radiator was in the way with the engine/trans hanging. A 2 pound hammer saved the day.

 

Hey guys so I am going to stick with the engine I got in it for now. If it blows up then screw it I’ll either do it on the driveway or on the street . I’ll have a 2 month window to get it done before I get a ticket. Thanks for all the help. I’ll be starting a new thread .