Wedge Pulling TR8 Engine

[JFS]

My TR8 has a rear pulling eye at the left rear of the engine, but none at the right front. Where do you attach a right front pulling eye? I am preparing to drop the engine from the bottom as per the factory manual (I am also hoping my long ss headers will not have to be removed -- gonna be close).

 

[tr8todd]

I can't remember if there was one on the front originally or not, but anyway, there are bolt holes in the front of the head. Put a 3" bolt thru your lift chain into one of those holes. You may need to remove the alt bracket.

 

[tr8todd]

Just thought of something. This is what I do when lowering them out the bottom. I get the car as high as I can on jack stands. Remove the front wheels. Put a floor jack under the subframe to lower the engine to the ground. Undo the struts at the top of the strut towers and lower the whole unit with the engine attached to the subframe. Be careful the struts don't swing away from the car and bang into the fenders or get stuck on the inner fender lips when you are lowering the subframe. Have someone hold onto them. If you need more height to drag the engine out from under the car, use the engine hoist to lift the car. It goes without saying that you need to undo things like front brake hoses, throttle cable, exhaust, hoses, and bell housing bolts.

 

[PATR8]

When I dropped myu engie from under my car I basically blocked the subframe and tranny at the height it sat, unbolted everything, raised the car using an engine hoist, moved the car back and worked on the engine right there. I basically used the mounts to hold the engine while I removed the top half. When I had the engine rebuilt, I set it back in the subframe at the same height and lowered the car back over it. Not sure if it was the best tech but it worked well for me. I found it allot easier to drop the engine and tranny together and take it apart once I had the car off of the pair.

 

[JFS]

Thanks guys. I'm going back to the garage to decide how to further proceed. I have everything undone except the suspension and subframe. Not sure yet if I'll take the suspension off seperately first or with the engine & tranny. I could just raise the car easily as I'm using a 4 post lift -- everything should clear between the two ramps.

 

[JFS]

Pulled the engine & tranny over the weekend. Put the car up on the lift, used a 2X12 board as a bridge to block up the front suspension and a 2X6 as a bridge to block up the tranny. Removed the motor mounts, 4 subrame mounting bolts and 4 tranny mount bolts. Dropped the car down to floor level. Used a chain hoist suspended from a reinforced garage joist and attached it to the body/suspension mount holes freed up by lifting the body with jacks at front jacking positions. Raised the body, used home-made jackstands to support body, then used hoist to raise engine (I found the front lift hole under the alternater bracket) enough to clear front suspension. Removed front suspension out front, dropped engine onto a moving dolly. Used crane to raise engine over front lift bar and onto dolly in front of lift.

Not as difficult as I had anticipated. I can email photos or try to post them if anyone is interested.

Now I need to replace the tranny with a rebuild from Quantum mechanics and replace engine gaskets and a tie rod end.