Removing the engine

[Eternal]

All you ford guys are very lucky!
It took me allmost 2 days to strip the skyline of its valuables! Worst bit on the gearbox was the fact that it was 4x4 so had tons of extra stuff attatched all over. And front driveshafts were a complete pain to remove. I put the engine and box on some scales and it came to 242kg >_< and also broke the scales.

Anyhow like the guys said just take loads and loads of photos. Also when you remove plugs from bits put stickers on the wires and the plugs they came from and lable them. This will help loads later down the road. Also get a load of old takeaway box's and stick lables on them with what bolts are from what bits. i have about 20 tubs full of labled nuts,bolts and bits. This will also save you a massive amount of time later. (can also put some cleaning solution in them as well!) oh and did i say take more pictures?

As a rule i try and go around the hole engine and gearbox removing everything thats connecting them to the shell, then remove the engine. after that collect the wires and anything else thats handy. But i try and leave any of the tubes connecting bits of the engine to other bits of the engine on. Its a bit different from my engine as with the turbo and intercooler pipes it added a load of extra junk.

Hope that helped a little.

[flyerncle]

Still brings that wry smile to my face thinking about it and sitting reading and writing on here,to be fair to all reading this and stripping their donor,s I am as Ronnie says a proffesional mechanic (£50 inthe post) with all the facillitys and silly amounts of tools etc so I admire the efforts of those who do not have the gear I have and do things on drive's etc as there is no way on this earth I would lay on the ground pulling cars apart.

[brainbug007]

Well I made some more progress today, lots of masking tape stuck to everything with numbers written on it for everything I've disconnected. Slow going but making good progress Lots of the rubber pipes are in bad shape though, most have holes or rotten completely and barely hanging on by a thread. Amazing the engine would still run like this let alone pass an MOT a few months ago :S

[twinturbo]

watch out for the masking tape dropping off or the ink fading.

The 4pot sierra's are easy cars to work on, and pulling the cars with Type 9's are easier still.

TT

[Hoybi]

I've strippped 4 sierra's so far.
If you have no particular plans with the body, the best you can do is to remove the radiator and cut away the beams between the headlights.
This gives you "full access" to the engine and makes it easy to remove the complete engine-and-transmission.

Eddy

[brainbug007]

I take it cutting/removing the beams and radiator won't affect the stability of it when i put it onto axle stands to remove the stuff off the bottom?

[twinturbo]

It will be fine the front chassis legs are very strong.

TT