need advice on pulling motor

[silversvt02]

I am going to start pulling my motor really soon

Should I leave the trans bolted to the motor and pull them together, or unbolt it from the motor and leave it in the truck? What would be easer? I have done it both ways on other cars, what is the easyest way for our trucks?

 

[203Cree]

Leave the trans in. Pulling the bell housing bolts and the converter bolts will be easier than anything you may end up having to do to get the whole package out. Or you could just pull the cab off the frame and do it that way.

 

[Venomous281]

Leave it in the truck. Way easier just unbolt it and pull the motor.

 

[Fade 2 Black]

I'm going to leave mine in the truck as well.

 

[booger]

There's not enough room to pull them out together with the cab on the truck.Just getting the engine out is bad enough.

 

[SWThomas]

I just got done doing mine and we left the trans in the truck.

 

[driven to build]

Just did mine also can't see leaving the trans on, it was tight with just the engine.

Driven

 

[slvrsvtlghtng]

I also just finished mine I unbolted the crossmember and the driveshaft and pulled it back and it made stuff so much easier.

 

[The Swede]

Leave it in the truck !

 

[Nvr_Spds]

Leave it. It weighs around 300lbs, and is BIG!!

 

[lightninmike]

you cant get the tranny out bolted to the motor you have to drop that out the bottom

 

[driven to build]

I also just finished mine I unbolted the crossmember and the driveshaft and pulled it back and it made stuff so much easier.

+1

 

[herb101]

For the 3 so far that have voted to pull them together - assuming you have actually done this, how about a brief how-to on doing it that way? It was bad enough just getting the motor alone out the top when I pulled mine.

Herb

 

[silversvt02]

For the 3 so far that have voted to pull them together - assuming you have actually done this, how about a brief how-to on doing it that way? It was bad enough just getting the motor alone out the top when I pulled mine.

Herb

well you have to pull the core support off to get it out that way. I have done it both ways, and in some cases it is easer to pull them together, cause you dont have to fight the tourque converter when putting the eninge back in.

 

[lightninmike]

It was bad enough just getting the motor alone out the top when I pulled mine.

Herb

you actually remember doing this?? ;-)

 

[herb101]

you actually remember doing this?? ;-)

Ouch - :lol: :fart:

I must have looked back at the pictures :read: .... I'm trolling for way to make it go back together easier.

I'm running a bit scared now with reading about your heads, Phil's plugs, Casey's crank and all of the other first built blues going around.

I'm going to look at the core support idea, since everything up there is out of the way and I want to respray the front bumper - it looks like the moon with all the rock craters in it.

Herb

 

[lightninmike]

yeah its no fun but i hope to hell yours goes together better than the rest of us
put it this way atleast your STILL at the same point as a year ago and the rest of us are BACK at this point. so your ahead of the game

 

[herb101]

well you have to pull the core support off to get it out that way. I have done it both ways, and in some cases it is easer to pull them together, cause you dont have to fight the tourque converter when putting the eninge back in.

Does the core support unbolt? I was under the impression that the inner fenders and core support are integral with the body like a unibody structure. The pics in this post seem t show that too.

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=260628

Am I missing somthing on that? I hope so, cuz that wuld make it MUCH easier going back together for me.

Herb

 

[silversvt02]

you are right, it does not unblot, I just looked today. But I am leaving it in there.

 

[svt5.4]

Pull the cab if you can, it is alot easier. :rockon: