Well If you have read any of my last post this week, you should know Ive been have a bad issue with my nearly brand new motor. either I have a broken rod or piston. So I go to pull the oil pan of to check it out (have already disassembled the whole top halfof the motor...exhaust manifolr, intake manifold, timing belt, head, ect.). And to my suprise FORD had a great design idea and made it so you have to take off the starter AND raise the engine off the mounts about 3" just to get it off. Well one of my bolds on the "mount to mount" (2 piece engine mounts) is stripped. So the only way to raise my engine is to unbold the mounts from the engine, and in doing so, the engine will not be supported whatsoever unless from a hoist or jacks at the bottom (making it impossible to take the oil pan off. my second delema is even if I do get the pan off and engine supported, there is no room to work on the #1 cyl because of the steering which is directly below it)
Sorry...long story short. I have to pull my engine out to fix my problem no matter what. So I was thinking about rebuilding my engine back to working order and trying to sell it to help fund a turbo motor. The problem I have with that is my car is an auto. even though I had the tranny rebuild at the same time I bought my new engine (about 25k ago). I know my a4ld will go bad sooner than the rubber on my tires. But Id hate to put a 3rd n/a engine in my car consiering Ive wanted and talked about going turbo for 3yrs now.
Anyways, tomorrow Ill be off the rent a engine hoist and be pulling my motor. hope all goes well. Should I pull the tranny and engine out as a whole so I dont have to worry about meeting them again or would it be easier to just pull the engine by itself?
Sorry...long story short. I have to pull my engine out to fix my problem no matter what. So I was thinking about rebuilding my engine back to working order and trying to sell it to help fund a turbo motor. The problem I have with that is my car is an auto. even though I had the tranny rebuild at the same time I bought my new engine (about 25k ago). I know my a4ld will go bad sooner than the rubber on my tires. But Id hate to put a 3rd n/a engine in my car consiering Ive wanted and talked about going turbo for 3yrs now.
Anyways, tomorrow Ill be off the rent a engine hoist and be pulling my motor. hope all goes well. Should I pull the tranny and engine out as a whole so I dont have to worry about meeting them again or would it be easier to just pull the engine by itself?