Slamrod

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Looking to drop the tranny on my part out car and it occurred to me that this may be a problem since the crossmember and front/rear motor mounts have been removed. Since the motor is currently sitting on the tranny motor mount and the pass side mount and ofc already sagging, Im afraid of removing the tranny and having the motor fall out of the car. Will the single side motor mount hold it up? I really dont care about the motor or the car's welfare, like if stuff gets bent up or whatever it doesnt bother me - i just dont want to get crushed or have the tranny get damaged while removing it.

Right now I think my best bet would be to prop the motor up using blocks/wood so I should be ok while doing the job itself - but will I have to worry about the motor falling out when I remove that support? Id like to avoid a total ****show of having that happen as the car is being dragged onto a flatbed if possible lol.

Any advice is appreciated, Ive never pulled a tranny before so the whole thing will be an adventure for sure.

JSutter

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I would not rely on only one mount to support the engine. If you had the cross member in you would be all set. Since you don't, one way is to support it from the bottom with a piece of wood under the upper oil pan and a jack stand. Or get creative and support it from above using metal tubing to bridge across the strut towers and securing the engine with chains.

max ride 41

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dear god, please use chains and a jack stand as jsutter has said. don't rely on one crappy mount and a couple of 2x4's.

Slamrod

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max ride 41

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Lmao i value all of my appendages quite dearly, im certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed but im not stupid enough to endanger myself by trusting a single motor mount with my life. Anytime i jack something up i always give it a good shake to make sure its nice and secure - the idea is that if it falls, then you probably just saved your own life. Better to be out time and money than to win the next Darwin Award. Just wanted to see if anyone had an easy solution is all.[/left][/QUOTE]

i figured that, just didn't want to see a story about how you lost a limb or worse rushing through it.

CS_AR

I used one of these Harbor Freight engine supports when we pulled the transmission on the 97 model.

Slamrod

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Thanks for looking out bruv. Sometimes things we take for granted as common sense go over other peoples heads. Always hits home when I hear about some poor kid crushed to death while working on their pride and joy. Lost count how many times Ive jacked my car up and forgot my jackstands in the toolshed and thought "screw it, ill only be under for a moment, nothing bads going to happen to me" only to shake that lazy idiot thought out of my head and go back and grab them.



I will never cease to be amazed at the amount of random job specific tools one would never know existed harbor freight has in their stores lol. Might pick one of these up if I cant find the beefy steel fence pipe I had laying around that conveniently vanished the second I find an actual use for it.

JSutter

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How's the quality of that?

CS_AR

Not bad it does the job. My neighbor borrowed it.