Fast engine removal (the belfast way!)

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Postby David Gentleman » Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:10 am

....and wheres those handbrake cables?. We all know thats a 2 week job just to release just one from an old caliper... :lol:
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Postby Stunned Monkey » Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:22 am

This is a funny thread :) Speshly as have just mated an atmo subframe back up. It's great how they thought to provide a remote clutch bleed point on the turbos (which is a sod to do on the DeLorean) but didn't provide a hard line that runs along the top of the gearbox onto which you hook the flexible clutch line - which is easy to unhook on the D!

A decent larger-variety jack will get the car high enough with a bit of 2x4 on the saddle. I don't have one of those funky forklift jobbies (used to engines that come out upwards :) ) so a crane and a jack sufficed. Wheeling the whole thing out afterwards proved probably the trickest manoever!

Dave, you're making it up about those handbrake cables - the biggest sod was undoing the flexi-hoses from the hard lines!

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Postby David Gentleman » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:38 am

What did you remove the brake lines, new hoses?
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Postby simonsays74 » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:51 am

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Ah, well I reckon you would get water around the tyres then, which would then get driven into the workshop and get wet tyre tracks....

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that is the joy of a dry unpainted concrete floor :wink:

handbrake cables tucked up into the strut turrets so the did not get tangled up when dropping the whole lot down.

clutch master cylinder was removed from the gearbox with feed pipe still connected.

anything else you want cleared up :lol:
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Postby clee » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:26 am

I reckon he's photoshopped it :shock: :lol: :lol:
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Postby David Gentleman » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:28 am

simonsays74 wrote:
that is the joy of a dry unpainted concrete floor :wink:



Pah, pikey....get some floor paint...
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Postby andyh877 » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:57 am

spida....... easy :D
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Postby rupert » Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:45 pm

Easy ish yes, only problem is that you practically have to remove the engine to do anything to it!!

How I miss mine........ :x
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Postby andyh877 » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:01 pm

rupert wrote:Easy ish yes, only problem is that you practically have to remove the engine to do anything to it!!

How I miss mine........ :x


really.....?....... not so as we have experienced...... unless you want to change the rad :D

have been able to do most jobs with the lump in it even gearbox and clutch changes etc
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Postby David Gentleman » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:24 pm

simonsays74 wrote:

handbrake cables tucked up into the strut turrets so the did not get tangled up when dropping the whole lot down.



What is it with you and Martin playing with brake lines and cables...

Do you both have a fetish for pain in the ass jobs...? :lol:
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Postby Stunned Monkey » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:37 pm

Oh, I see, you remove the calipers and leave them dangling, yes ? Yes, that is probably a better way of doing it. Rob wanted to change out his calipers anyway. The cables I just unhooked BX styleeee (had 3)
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Postby David Gentleman » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:44 pm

Yep, remove the caliper, undo the top bolt on the hubcarrier and pull it forward so the handbrake cable can come out from underneath the upper arm, and then hang the caliper onto the bottom of the rear shock eyelet so its out of the way (I leave the rear shocks in situ), otherwise you'll stretch/kink the brake lines if you leave them dangling...
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Postby Stunned Monkey » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:20 pm

yeah, left shocks dangling and took out upper hub carrier bolt in order to pull the driveshafts from the gearbox - but only did that after pulling the whole thing out.
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Postby simonsays74 » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:25 pm

David Gentleman wrote:Yep, remove the caliper, undo the top bolt on the hubcarrier and pull it forward so the handbrake cable can come out from underneath the upper arm, and then hang the caliper onto the bottom of the rear shock eyelet so its out of the way (I leave the rear shocks in situ), otherwise you'll stretch/kink the brake lines if you leave them dangling...


:lol: :lol: :lol: you clearly are english :lol: :lol: :lol:

the irish way...... pop the cable of the caliper lever, slide it out of the caliper and thats it :?

disconnect metal brake pipe from flexi hose and leave it attached to the caliper.

honestly :? you english :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby David Gentleman » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:51 pm

simonsays74 wrote:
David Gentleman wrote:Yep, remove the caliper, undo the top bolt on the hubcarrier and pull it forward so the handbrake cable can come out from underneath the upper arm, and then hang the caliper onto the bottom of the rear shock eyelet so its out of the way (I leave the rear shocks in situ), otherwise you'll stretch/kink the brake lines if you leave them dangling...


:lol: :lol: :lol: you clearly are english :lol: :lol: :lol:

the irish way...... pop the cable of the caliper lever, slide it out of the caliper and thats it :?

disconnect metal brake pipe from flexi hose and leave it attached to the caliper.

honestly :? you english :lol: :lol: :lol:


..you irish....... :roll:

Bet you had a couple of cousins helping you, one underneath trying to find the propshaft, and the other trying to prise up the nosecose badge so he could gain access to the radiator cap...:lol:




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