4th gen engine removal

[CamaroSpike23]

If you havent been aware, the transmission in my 94Z has been pretty much shot for a while now, and after my recent acquirement of my original first car, my 78 Camaro...aka Christine. I decided it was time to let Candace (94Z) go on to other things.

after having her up for sale for a while and a bunch of texts, pm's, and emails, I could not find a buyer for the car as a whole, but I had numerous people wanting parts. so, after calculating the costs to remove the parts and ship/deliver vs selling the car as a whole, I decided to start pulling.

a bunch of stuff has already been pulled and sold and a friend of mine upstate said he wanted the motor to put in his truck. so I went out to pull the motor today....using the reverse process of how the motor was installed... thru the bottom.


and after everything was said and done.....

I'm in a little pain



since the car still had reverse, I figured I'd back it up onto the trailer to tow to the auto shop. well, that started out as a hopeful endeavor. come to find out, with the rake of the car, the front end sat just a little too low....and while backing up onto the trailer, the left header was getting caught on the trailer lip.

"well," I thought to myself, "I'll just reach up there and push on it a little to move it"


yeah... dont ever do that.




here's why....















stupid mistake. I honestly cant believe I let myself do that. I was rushing myself and not taking proper precautions.


Needless to say, I grabbed a 2X4 out of the back of the truck and pried the exhaust up and wedged the board under the tire to hold the exhaust.

then I started backing onto the trailer again... only to find out that the extremely low stance of the car was causing the car to drag the k-member on the trailer

quick fix... mash the pedal. did a little reverse burnout, but got the car on the trailer finally. towed it over to the shop just as a friend finally showed up to help me... dropped the car off and went home for the night.

came out today and started working.


pulled off the hood




pulled the battery from here


and put it over here



jacking the car up!



look at that suspension travel...



Jackstands. safety first!


ridin low



pulled the LTCC ignition kit off


draining the coolant



pulling the coolant hoses, cooling fans, radiator, and a/c condenser






moved on to the headers



getting empty










MAXIMUM STARTER!!!!


regular starter




pullin a wheelie!



front and rear tire side by side




getting the car higher!!!!



strappin on the chains!






pulling the k-member



and after some work, the engine is out












pop the subframe back in.... and drop her back down

[BlackieRay]

What a shame a nice car like that is being parted out. It actually looks like it was in good shape.

[Blownhotrodder]

Stupid hurts. lol

[CamaroSpike23]

Originally Posted by BlackieRay

What a shame a nice car like that is being parted out. It actually looks like it was in good shape.

body and motor wise, yeah it was in great shape. needed some paint, but dont they all?

and a new windshield, and new carpet, and door panels, and a new dash, center console, headliner, and more.


Transmission only has reverse. its been down for a while now and its time for me to move on.

[zebra]

wow Greg Norris wouldn't've got burnt, had he been there...
oh but wait... he don't exist



ps - i'd almost offer to buy them fans off ya

[Camaro_Corvette]

F#*$, hand looks like it's in a little pain!

I love the battery pics I don't know why, just lmao

[CamaroSpike23]

Originally Posted by zebra

wow Greg Norris wouldn't've got burnt, had he been there...
oh but wait... he don't exist



ps - i'd almost offer to buy them fans off ya

yeah, he was supposed to come help me, but he didnt show up.

i'd almost entertain the idea of selling them to you. but I'm waiting on word from the guy whos buying the motor to see if he wants them with the radiator. or if I can get him to trade the radiator thats in the 78 for this one since it has the mounts for the fans already.

Originally Posted by Camaro_Corvette

F#*$, hand looks like it's in a little pain!

I love the battery pics I don't know why, just lmao

hands doing ok, just feels weird, skin is all tight around it. I want to pop the blister... baaad. lol


and the battery pics...

well, we started out wanting to take pictures of everything, step by step to make a little how-to for engine removal. then realized that we had to have the motor out and everything by the time the shop closed its doors and the fact that I'm not putting this motor back in. so we only took about 97 pictures. had I more time and another free person to help, there would have been many more pics.

but those ones just work. pull this from here... and put it over there

[TAG UR IT]

That hand looks like a pain in the ass. Heck....had I been in the area, I'd have helped out. I love learning new stuff like that. Take care of that hand, man.

[2000v6]

Ouch, that hand looks bad.

[Camaro_Corvette]

Originally Posted by CamaroSpike23

yeah, he was supposed to come help me, but he didnt show up.

i'd almost entertain the idea of selling them to you. but I'm waiting on word from the guy whos buying the motor to see if he wants them with the radiator. or if I can get him to trade the radiator thats in the 78 for this one since it has the mounts for the fans already.



hands doing ok, just feels weird, skin is all tight around it. I want to pop the blister... baaad. lol


and the battery pics...

well, we started out wanting to take pictures of everything, step by step to make a little how-to for engine removal. then realized that we had to have the motor out and everything by the time the shop closed its doors and the fact that I'm not putting this motor back in. so we only took about 97 pictures. had I more time and another free person to help, there would have been many more pics.

but those ones just work. pull this from here... and put it over there

That would have been a looooooong freaking post if you did that for everything...

[michael's maro]

I hope you didn't mess my trailer up...LOL
your hand looks like sh##
To bad I had to work saturday, I would have helped

[camaroincarolina]

DAMN Spike.....Looks like you might not be doing any hard driving with that hand for awhile......DO NOT pop the blisters, let them pop on their own and keep it covered in gauze to keep germs out........As for the car, sorry for your loss!

[CamaroSpike23]

Originally Posted by Camaro_Corvette

That would have been a looooooong freaking post if you did that for everything...

meh, I've been working on a how-to website for the last 4 years or so that is similar in nature to www.shbox.com
only for every single vehicle I've ever owned/worked on.

Camaros
78
86
95
94
96
93
98
99
01
75
67
70.5


Trucks
08 Silverado
97 Silverado
98 F150
70 C10
80 K20
some blazers and broncos
01 durango

Other cars
Escort
Escape
Galant
Century
plus a whole slew of other vehicles I cant think of right now.

I've got a 4Tb external hard drive with metric crap tonnes of pictures of nearly every single bolt and nut from every project I've ever worked on. plus videos of some things and my one friend who is usually my photographer will take like 60 pics in a minute as I'm pulling a part off a car so its like a mini-movie

I just dont have time to really build the site right now. maybe after the summer and once I've moved into the new house and get settled in I'll find some time to get everything up and running.

Originally Posted by michael's maro

I hope you didn't mess my trailer up...LOL
your hand looks like sh##
To bad I had to work saturday, I would have helped

your trailer just about jacked up my car.

seriously, the left header collector is now bent on one of the flanges.

btw, give me a call tonight. got a present or 4 for you.

and I believe you have some monies for me

Originally Posted by camaroincarolina

DAMN Spike.....Looks like you might not be doing any hard driving with that hand for awhile......DO NOT pop the blisters, let them pop on their own and keep it covered in gauze to keep germs out........As for the car, sorry for your loss!

meh, I can drive with the pain. I dislocated my left kneecap years ago and didnt have anyone to drive me to the hospital and the only vehicles I had available to me were the 78 camaro and the 70 C10... both were 3 speed manuals. that hurt.

as for keeping germs out... meh, I've got enough dirt and grease from working on the cars to keep the germs out. lmao

[CamaroSpike23]

I just had a funny... but sick thought...


and it involves this picture anyone wanna guess