engine 99% pulled, need help

[Raptor]

Seriously, if you ever intend to accelerate again, put them back together and pull them as one. There are a ton of reasons for this, rather than explain them all I am just going to tell you to trust the members of the site who have done it more times than we can count. You will understand when you do it that it is much easier in the long run.

[SlowWhite]

enes is right dont' forget that back bolt - I forgot my first time around I missed that one also.. (just used to it now, so it slipped my mind)

[x1genx]

pull the axles if you havent, i cant figure out if you have or not.....and then check that bolt that enes was talking about.....drop the transmission with someone underneath it to guide it down....pull the motor...just becareful of the flywheel/clutch and the dust shield...thats what i last did. It worked out well. I only had the car on jack stands as well...maybe 10 inches off the ground.....just make sure everything is free of everything before you start yanking.

[intendedacceleration]

pull the axles if you havent, i cant figure out if you have or not.....and then check that bolt that enes was talking about.....drop the transmission with someone underneath it to guide it down....pull the motor...just becareful of the flywheel/clutch and the dust shield...thats what i last did. It worked out well. I only had the car on jack stands as well...maybe 10 inches off the ground.....just make sure everything is free of everything before you start yanking.

I haven't pulled the axles yet as that is what we were trying to avoid. If I were to pull the axles however, why would I not want to pull everything up as one like everyone else suggests to do?

[FORSFED]

That's the point. Get the axles out of there since it takes all of an extra 5 mins to do and yank it all out as one.

[acidrumz]

if you are doing just a clutch job, you can just drop the whole tranny and work from there; you can slightly disconnect the tranny from the engine just enought so you can get access to the clutch and go from there (lazy man's job) ; or all together remove the engine+tranny out.

the last one will make life easier.
plus if you don't want to disconnect the axles, and if you are doing a clutch job, it would be nice to have fresh syncromesh in there too.

good luck.

[niterydr]

Just unbolt the 2 bolts that hold the hub to the shock/strut assembly (assuming its a 1g) and pop the axles out, easy as pie, then pull the motor out the top.
Should take u less than 1 day even if its your first motor ever to pull.

[speedfreaktalon6]

Just drop your axles man and get it over with. there is no way around it. it takes no less that 10 mins to pull both axles.

[Jacek]

Yeah thats just not the easy way to do it. It will take you more time to alignt the engine back up with the tranny than to align the tranny with the engine. Ive done many engine swaps and there is nothing more of a pain then being told to leave the tranny in. Just undo the main nuts for the axle shafts and the ball joints, then the 2 or 3 bolts holding the left front axle shaft in the center. My first ever engine pull on a dsm took me 3 hours alone and I left the engine and tranny as one.