Ok, my heads & cam install was going pretty smooth until I tried to take the cam out without using something to hold the lifters up . A lifter fell, & sounded like it hit the oil pan, no problem right, nope, dropped the oil pan, but seems it got stuck behind the windage tray, which as you know, is behind the second oil pan. Using a magnet didn't work, so I thought I would remove the lifter holder (my heads were already off), to see if I could see it. Well, the other 3 lifters fell at that point, DAMN IT!! Ok, don't panic, yeah right. Well in order to remove the oil pan to get to the windage tray, you have to lift the motor up a bit, or so I thought. So I remove the bottom bolts for the motor mounts, & jack it up a bit, of course, the pan still won't drop. So I thought I would just drop the craddle, which I did. Ok, got the oil pan out, windage tray out, & recovered all the lifters. Now here's the next problem. As I was lifting the craddle back up into position, everything was lined up fine except for the drivers side motor mount bolt. SO now I've got everything in it's proper hole except the ds motor mount bolt. Cake right, just jack the motor up some more, line it up, & drop into place, wrong, I go to lift the motor up, & it lifts the whole car off the jack stands!! After a while of wrestling with it, I called it a night.

Little help guys, i'm in need.

-Tucker

 

I don't have any specific advice for ya, other than to say "you had the heads off and you didn't remove the lifters!?! Why not?" The only reason to worry about holding the lifters up w/ pen magnets / sliding rods into the block is if you are doing the cam swap w/ the heads on.

It sounds like maybe the motor mount studs are hanging on the holes in the subframe (?)

A word of caution. Please be careful with this whole "motor unbolted from the subframe" business.. You could easily screw up your firewall w/ the back of the motor.

Good luck.