Funny old engine pulling story

Not exactly an engine pulling story but an old buddy told me this story years ago and I've never forgotten it. It took place in the 60's.

He and his wife were newlyweds and just starting out and not having a lot of money the were driving an old and very rusty Pontiac (not sure what year). One day at work he gets a call from his wife and the conversation goes like this:

Wife: "Honey, something happened to the car!"

Husband: "What happened?"

Wife: "The engine fell out!"

Husband: "Sweetheart, The engine can't fall out. Where are you now?"

Wife: "I'm at the garage."

Husband: "Let me talk to the mechanic, darling."

Wife: "Ok, just a second."

Mechanic: "Hello?"

Husband: "So what's wrong with the car?"

Mechanic: "The engine fell out."

 

WOW... thats a good one.

 

I found a absolutly perfect 48 Ford Cp in Uniontown Pa. (in the 60s)with a broken crank, and took it home to Pgh (NOISY, WOW) WE found a engine down at a junk yard and the owner said we could use his boom truck to swap engines (we knew him) So we got it all loose tied a chain around it and started to pull her out. Did not want to come out, it was loose but as we was liften it it would only go so far and then the car was liften up also. Finally we just keep pulling and then found the problem. Bro w****d the chain around the engine and tie rod. The tie rod was bent like a wish bone. We had a good laugh and finally got er done. That was one fine fat fender. Mom got mad at Bro and sold it for s**** about 6mos later, Car was still in my name and Bro was using it. It was a done deal and I lost that one. Iceman

 

This is how it's done on the car farm... Inkandune and Scotty ripping a nailhead and the rear end out of a Riviera...

 

the same but different...2 forklifts, one car trailer, one rusty 72 New yorker...and this is after it took 4 guys better than 6 hours to break it free from the ice and the huge pile of frozen manure it had been dragged on top of......which it almost ripped in half, actually after 2 hours of waaay cold wind, ripping it in half seemed to be the most logical thing to do but it held together.........and the thing was really so rusty it wan the easiest engine removal I've ever done, just a smoke wrench.

 

Not an engine pull story,but an engine"overhaul" story.
When I was a kid,my old man and his work partner had a old Dodge pick up. The thing needed to be rebuilt,but these two clowns never had any money,so they decide to ring and bearing it. Neither one could work on a car for ****,but it needed to be done.
It being a straight 6, they decide to put my dad up top,and his friend below--head off--pan off--pistons and rods out. They throw some rings and bearings on the pistons, and my dad starts to work them down the bores,and the friend bolts em up.
Being a piece-of-**** work truck, there's tons of dirt-****-etc all over the thing. After the last piston went in,the friend crawls out with all kinds of **** on him:after a clean-up,he sees some of the stuff is metal---like pieces of rings!
My dad didn't use a ring compressor,he figured just holding them as thight as possible as he HAMMERED them in was ok.No money for new rings--the ****on it up and drive the **** out it for another 4-5 years,he said it smoked a little,but ran good!
Did I mention that I never asked him to work on any of my cars?

 

Knew an auto wrecker that used a crane on crawler tracks to extract engine/****** combos from cars. Rads were unbolted first to separate the copper and br*** from the car. Then the grapple hook was clamped onto the engine (nothing had been undone) and started lifting. On one car, the motor mounts had not torn loose, so he hoisted the whole shebang 20 feet in the air, released the winch and hit the winch-brake before the car made contact with the ground. Out came the engine, ******, parts of the exhaust system, linkages, heater hoses squirting juice everywhere while the rest of the car continued downward. The steel mills didn't want the cast iron and aluminum included with the steel portions of the car.

 

thanks for starting this thread as it really is pretty humerous! i do recall pulling a handfull of engines in a rented garage that the ceiling would damm near collapse! we finally came across some pipe and shored up the ceiling, ahh the dumb old days!

 

Sometime you just have to be there.

 

Was in a junkyard and the owner bragged that he could pull a motor in less than a minute. "Yeah, right." So he backs his wrecker so that the back of his truck is up over the bumper of a car. He quickly winds a chain around the motor, and lifts away. The entire motor and ****** rip right out, dangling away, and damn if he did not get it out in under a minute.

 

This thread is awesome! It almost makes me want to tell the story of pulling the engine and forgetting to chock the wheels and watching the car take off toward a busy street, all because the guy was in a hurry to get the donor to the crusher before it closed. Almost!

 

TRULY "Laughing out loud" at that one!!! I can picture it like I was there, and man that's funny!!!! My brother and I did some crazy ****, but nothing like that!!!

 

You should have photoshopped the trailer out of the first one and claimed that the New Yorker could do wheelstands in the shop because it had the super rare "experimental" "Hi-Tork" motor in it and that Chrysler "accidentally" let it out of the factory. That's why you had to do the wheelstands INSIDE the garage, because if Chrysler would have found the car or the engine they would have wanted it back... The last photo of course is of the engine that took ITSELF out of the car because of the torque, and after it ripped the motor mounts, exhaust, and trans mount clean out of the car!!!

 

I have a couple from this one possessed car. I was helping a buddy on a '64 valiant. we were taking out the slant 6 to put a small block in. well we unbolt the 6 with the trans on it and jack it up. i was holding the tailshaft to maneuver the thing. well the one chain slips off the hook and drops the motor. the motor falls into the engine bay but the trans pins my middle finger down to the fender. that was fun sitting there until my buddy could get it lifted back up lol. Then a few weeks later he decided to move the car. We put that slant 6 and another one he had in my pickup to transport. He had forgotten to drain the oil out of the thing so as I am driving down the road my bed gets a nice coating of nasty. we were driving and he says "oh wait that's the turn" so i slam the brakes to make it. I heard a whoosh sound and the two things ride the oil rollercoaster right into my toolbox