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Mar 17, 2010 | 03:56 PM

bubba11193

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engine removal

has anyone removed it from above the car????
im going to be rebuilding it so if i have to take half of it apart to get it out thats no problem. I just dont want to have to raise the car off of it. Dont exactly have means to do that.

Mar 17, 2010 | 04:00 PM

lucky131969

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Do a search. It can be done from the top or bottom. Some good threads on this.

Mar 17, 2010 | 05:44 PM

Its_Go_Time

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Out the top for sure! Especially if the top end is already srtipped off!

Mar 17, 2010 | 06:04 PM

chevylad

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Now that is determination in a single car garage! Do you have to roll the car out to get the engine out?

Mar 17, 2010 | 08:53 PM

Its_Go_Time

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Now that is determination in a single car garage! Do you have to roll the car out to get the engine out?

No, the horizontal beam the engine is hanging from rolls forward and back on a pair of beams supported by those yellow posts. All I have to do is lift the engine high enough to clear the front end, then roll it forward and out. All it really needs is rollers in the center so I could move the engine left and right...but it seems to work well enough, so I never bothered.

Mar 18, 2010 | 07:58 PM

TheWildcat

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From: knoxville tennessee

I took mine out the top and back in complete... just un hook everything hook up the cherry picker then drop the fromt cradle.. you have more than enough room and I did it by my self with no lift... just a picker and a jack.....Thanks JOHN

Mar 23, 2010 | 10:21 AM

dchildress

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I need to pull the motor out of my 98. I don't know a lot about the LS engines. I bought a GM shop manual for the 98 and it looks like the book wants me to pull the A arms, steering rack, A/C, shocks, and all kinds of stuff. Do you need to pull all of this to go out the top? The A/C is brand new and I realy don't want to unhook it all. Pulling motors is a job but something I have done in my old Accord, a Ranger & Mustang I bought and sold, and my 70 Monte Carlo.

I have a similar set up to Its Go Time's for overhead hoisting and have plenty of room. I built a frame on casters that is 8' wide and height adjustable (without a motor on it) up to 10' tall with a chain fall as a hoist. I can pull the motor and wheel it right out the door and drop the motor back in my truck. I just bought this C5 with blown motor for a friggin' steal.

Mar 23, 2010 | 12:34 PM

montac

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I left the A/C in and dropped the cradle with the shocks, a-arms, rack, and cooler attached with the motor hooked up to the cherry picker. The job was not that bad actually.