How long will it take me to pull my 4.6 out of my 96? I have longtubes on her too so I'm guessing that will cause some grief. Can i pull the tranny out with it or should i take it off first? I want to start taking my beast apart here pretty soon.
The long tubes are going to definitely complicate things. I don't know how long it would take you but on my car and the older 5.0's you can usually get them out in 2 hours, that is not the case with your car, but on the older cars I find it easier to pull the tranny with the engine and put them back in as an assembly. That is just me though, and it may differ for your car. Hopefully somebody with more experience on the later models will chime in.
just take the radiator out and whatnot. undo the rear tranny mount, driveline etc, take out the two nuts for the motor mounts and make sure the wiring is disconnected and pull that out of there. Mine went in with the transmission connected AND bbk longtubes. Took about 3-4 hours to pull out the stock motor without trans. But it shouldn't be too bad for u. It was kind of hard to get it wiggled into place. But we put everything in with the k member still attached.
just take the radiator out and whatnot. undo the rear tranny mount, driveline etc, take out the two nuts for the motor mounts and make sure the wiring is disconnected and pull that out of there. Mine went in with the transmission connected AND bbk longtubes. Took about 3-4 hours to pull out the stock motor without trans. But it shouldn't be too bad for u. It was kind of hard to get it wiggled into place. But we put everything in with the k member still attached.
What long tubes do you have?? You can pull the engine and trany with the LT's on. Now depending on what LT's you have you can install both, or just the passanger side header. Worse come's to worse, when removing the engine and it hits some place on the header, you just unbolt the header/s with the engine part way out. I've done this many times pulling customer's engine out.
Did you pull the engine from the top?? I read alot of threads about puulong the motor out of the bottom. This seams a big pain in the garage...I need to change a rod but think that pulling the motor is the best way to proceed. Let me know what you think!!
I was confused. I couldn't figure out how the OP had all that work done in his sig, but didn't know if he could pull the block with the LT's installed. lol