Today I am a Man!
09-11-10, 11:43 PM
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Today I am a Man!
Finnaly pulled my first engine. I've owed a Rex for 19 years now, and this is the one that popped my cherry.
It is a 91 Turbo vert. Done very well by a guy in Mich. Ran great!!!
History. I've owned this one for about 5-6 years now. Last fall I had the clutch replaced and they killed my engine. I took it to the mech. I used on the few cases when I couldn't fix it myself, and long storie short it sat there for like a month and a half. (You can check the long versions of these by searching on my name) In april(ish) I purchase a replacement for it. A 90 Turbo vert. The guy I bought it from seem to know what he was doing. That car lasted 2 months.
I got it down to a shop in puyallup (pew-al-up) who is going to do the swap. Broke a E-Shaft (you can look that up too) AND this is the kicker, it is an S4 block with a s5 frontcover to run the oil injection and s5 evertything else parts. This Pisses me off. anyway the happy part.
I spent the week prepping the car from rotoryreserection's web page, took about 3 days to remove what i needed to. Yesterday I did a "practice run" with the hoist to see if i had enough room. I'm glad I did because the hoist wouldn't work from the front. After that I loosened the 6 14mm nuts. and cleaned up.
Today, THE DAY I BECAME A MAN! I went out at 1:05pm. took up tension on the hoist and removed the 6 bolts. I took my time, used the load leveler and even after spending a few minutes moving the ECU harness which was caught between the AC and heater pipes.
IT WAS OUT IN 25 MINUTES!!!! WOO HOO.
If it hadent been for the slight birds nest with the wires it would have taken about as long as the first time I became a man! Many years ago on the floor of the public bathroom in Edmonds Park. Which my ex-wife must still hate me for.
Two pics. The first is my Victory
the second is the reason why i am not just reusing this chassis. Her name is "Rusty" for a reason. this is a pile of the rust after less than a minute of probing with my flathead.
It is a 91 Turbo vert. Done very well by a guy in Mich. Ran great!!!
History. I've owned this one for about 5-6 years now. Last fall I had the clutch replaced and they killed my engine. I took it to the mech. I used on the few cases when I couldn't fix it myself, and long storie short it sat there for like a month and a half. (You can check the long versions of these by searching on my name) In april(ish) I purchase a replacement for it. A 90 Turbo vert. The guy I bought it from seem to know what he was doing. That car lasted 2 months.
I got it down to a shop in puyallup (pew-al-up) who is going to do the swap. Broke a E-Shaft (you can look that up too) AND this is the kicker, it is an S4 block with a s5 frontcover to run the oil injection and s5 evertything else parts. This Pisses me off. anyway the happy part.
I spent the week prepping the car from rotoryreserection's web page, took about 3 days to remove what i needed to. Yesterday I did a "practice run" with the hoist to see if i had enough room. I'm glad I did because the hoist wouldn't work from the front. After that I loosened the 6 14mm nuts. and cleaned up.
Today, THE DAY I BECAME A MAN! I went out at 1:05pm. took up tension on the hoist and removed the 6 bolts. I took my time, used the load leveler and even after spending a few minutes moving the ECU harness which was caught between the AC and heater pipes.
IT WAS OUT IN 25 MINUTES!!!! WOO HOO.
If it hadent been for the slight birds nest with the wires it would have taken about as long as the first time I became a man! Many years ago on the floor of the public bathroom in Edmonds Park. Which my ex-wife must still hate me for.
Two pics. The first is my Victory
the second is the reason why i am not just reusing this chassis. Her name is "Rusty" for a reason. this is a pile of the rust after less than a minute of probing with my flathead.
09-14-10, 10:46 AM
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09-15-10, 12:41 AM
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but no less gay.
Haha, just joking. Congrats on the engine pull, well done. Get it rebuilt and haulin *** soon...
edit: just realized you are swapping it in. even better, hope it goes smoothly. Just some advice:
If you didnt remove the driveshaft from the 91 vert when you swap in the 90 vert motor, get a jack under there and just hold the transmission up to the mounts, it takes you and a guy pushing the assembly from the front and working the jack to mate it all up together, it must be one concerted motion mating the dreiveshaft and lifting the tranny up to the mounts.
Haha, just joking. Congrats on the engine pull, well done. Get it rebuilt and haulin *** soon...
edit: just realized you are swapping it in. even better, hope it goes smoothly. Just some advice:
If you didnt remove the driveshaft from the 91 vert when you swap in the 90 vert motor, get a jack under there and just hold the transmission up to the mounts, it takes you and a guy pushing the assembly from the front and working the jack to mate it all up together, it must be one concerted motion mating the dreiveshaft and lifting the tranny up to the mounts.
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