Tag: Engine

Engine is out!

(Weekend of 06/03/2023)

A little late in posting this, but here we are! The V12 is out!

I’m sitting in the driver’s seat while dad is engaging the winch. My driveway is on quite an angle, so getting the car on to the trailer wasn’t all that hard as the trailer ended up being nearly flat when against the driveway angle.

Loaded, strapped and ready to roll…

First task was an initial power wash to get more mouse grossness out.

Next is to pull the Turbo 400 transmission

Engine crane is attached and ready to rip!

It’s out!

Back in my garage, we weren’t so sure getting the car off the trailer and back into the garage would be that easy – mainly because of that driveway angle was now no longer in our favor.

So, I bolted this block to the floor to loop the winch rope through and pull the car into the garage from the trailer.

And back in the garage she sits!

Back on rubber!

Quick update. The car is back on four wheels as I’m taking it to my folks’ to pull the engine and transmission out! Then a power wash and we’ll return it to begin the conversion!

The disconnection

(01/21/2023)

Once part of the exhaust was out of the way, I focused on removing the starter and the torque converter bolts.

I’m sure with a different tool I could get the TC bolts from the inspection shield on the bottom, but with what I had, I ended up going through the starter well.