I'm trying to remove an M20B25 from a car at my local junk yard to rebuild over the summer. My question is how should I go about doing this?
The front end has been sawed off so the engine can EASILY be chained and lifted away. I know how to remove it the right way, but since the front end is open, should I just drop the entire suspension when the crane comes down and holds the engine? If I have it hold onto the engine and I drop the suspension, it will take the tranny and half of the driveshaft out with it. Once it's like that I can just unbolt the tranny and drop it real fast.
The reason I'd rather do this is because I don't feel like getting the driveshaft off. If the harmonic balancer wasnt there I wouldn't mind, but it just makes things hard to take off so I'd rather take the whole thing out and drop the garbage auto tranny. This would make getting the engine out about a 15 minute job rather than the couple hours that it would normally take with the rusted tranny bolts.
I'm just asking this to see if there are any bad reasons I shouldn't do it. I see none. I don't want to destroy the engine, but I'm rebuilding it completely anyway for a summer project.
The front end has been sawed off so the engine can EASILY be chained and lifted away. I know how to remove it the right way, but since the front end is open, should I just drop the entire suspension when the crane comes down and holds the engine? If I have it hold onto the engine and I drop the suspension, it will take the tranny and half of the driveshaft out with it. Once it's like that I can just unbolt the tranny and drop it real fast.
The reason I'd rather do this is because I don't feel like getting the driveshaft off. If the harmonic balancer wasnt there I wouldn't mind, but it just makes things hard to take off so I'd rather take the whole thing out and drop the garbage auto tranny. This would make getting the engine out about a 15 minute job rather than the couple hours that it would normally take with the rusted tranny bolts.
I'm just asking this to see if there are any bad reasons I shouldn't do it. I see none. I don't want to destroy the engine, but I'm rebuilding it completely anyway for a summer project.
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