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Originally Posted by ONEBAD78TA
Not to but into this post,,but im also experiencing some similar problems,,and if I could just get some assistance would be great,,,so for you shop owners,,,lets just say a guy brings in a 78 trans am with a perfect running pontiac motor with a turbo 350 tranny,,,your tasked with removing the motor and tranny because your going to be putting in a new motor and tranny ,,,my first question,,do you pull the motor and tranny as one unit at the same time because you were told the customer is going to sell the motor and tranny ,,note there are no wheel wells in car and everything is just as simple as can be no a/c or heater core.NOW THIS WILL SOUND DUMB BUT JUST ROLE WITH IT PLEASE,,,,OR do you pull out the distributor,take off the oil filter housing,pull all pulleys,alternator,power steering pump,and only pull out the engine,and leave the tranny hainging unsupported .,,,,what is an best guess at how many hours to pull the engine and tranny,,,now if I were to have done this myself I would have pulled it all out at the same time and only taken off what had to be disconnected,,,but hey thats me.Or if you did pull just the motor how many hours would it take????/?  |
I would have removed the subframe, lifted the entire engine/trans out and told you to bring a P/U and loaded it in the back. And then cleaned up the sub, drop the new engine and trans on the sub and reinstalled the unit.
But what do I know.