Engine out for clutch?
Discussion
by the time you've done enough to move the engine forward to give you enough room to change a clutch, you're only 10mins away from lifting the engine out and doing a proper job of it, without the effing an blinding of trying to line up the clutch blind and scraping knuckles on everything.
(The Bible says...)You can do it by dropping the gearbox, but that involved cutting a chassis cross member and welding it back in later, however you can only get to half of the tube to weld so it's a reall bodge job.
Regards
Iain
(The Bible says...)You can do it by dropping the gearbox, but that involved cutting a chassis cross member and welding it back in later, however you can only get to half of the tube to weld so it's a reall bodge job.
Regards
Iain
I've done it both ways (ooo err..) if you remove the water pump you can move the engine a long way forward with the wiring still attached but as has been said here it's not much more effort to remove the engine and be able to have a good chassis clean up and paint while you are there.
If you are hiring the crane - it pretty much takes a day to remove the engine and a day to put it back in.
Some of the exhaust bolts are not a lot of fun to do.
If you are hiring the crane - it pretty much takes a day to remove the engine and a day to put it back in.
Some of the exhaust bolts are not a lot of fun to do.
they forgot the design bit, some of the time. Boosted Ls1 said:
If I had to do this to my car I'd mod the chassis crossmember and probably weld some plates in that area so that it became a bolt on crossmember enabling gearbox removal. Removing an engine to change a clutch is a big design flaw.
Boosted.
Very true.. but if you are doing the job at home and don't have a pit - it would be very difficult to do this one.. but it was a design ommision.
I changed a g/b recently and only pulled the engine out by about 10". I think it would be similar for clutch.
Things you don't have to disconnect/reconnect:
engine wiring
heater hoses
also you don't have to remember which way to put the engine back in. More importantly, it's in the correct place and at the right angle for swift reinsertion.
If you're doing the clutch don't forget to get a clutch alignment tool (aka the end off a broomstick...)
Things you don't have to disconnect/reconnect:
engine wiring
heater hoses
also you don't have to remember which way to put the engine back in. More importantly, it's in the correct place and at the right angle for swift reinsertion.
If you're doing the clutch don't forget to get a clutch alignment tool (aka the end off a broomstick...)
rev-erend said:
If I had to do this to my car I'd mod the chassis crossmember and probably weld some plates in that area so that it became a bolt on crossmember enabling gearbox removal. Removing an engine to change a clutch is a big design flaw.
Boosted.
Very true.. but if you are doing the job at home and don't have a pit - it would be very difficult to do this one.. but it was a design ommision.
I agree. It's the sort of thing I'd modify of get modded if I was planning to keep the car long term. I'm sure a big improvement could be made in this dept.
Boosted.
To be fair it's probably no more of a design cockup than many other single-minded sports cars. I would bet that a cambelt/chain change on a V12 Ferrari or Lambo would be a riot, to say nothing of Diablo clutches that last weeks...
In an ideal world, for example, cars would have cassette gearboxes like racing motorbikes (quick ratio changes to suit the track)... but they don't.
Right, can't chat: must get back to this Lotus engine that I have spread all over the driveway.... garage... kitchen... hallway... (can you tell me Julie's away?
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In an ideal world, for example, cars would have cassette gearboxes like racing motorbikes (quick ratio changes to suit the track)... but they don't.
Right, can't chat: must get back to this Lotus engine that I have spread all over the driveway.... garage... kitchen... hallway... (can you tell me Julie's away?
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