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LS2 VE Engine removal - easy or hard?

Started by RallyRed , Apr 20 2015 06:43 PM

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#1 RallyRed

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 06:43 PM

Hi,

Just about to go looking for a suspected sketchy piston in the above...does anyone know if these are like Toranas where dropping the K frame is the easiest way to get the engine out?...or do you pull it out from the top, with an engine lifter?

( p..s I don't know that they feature the same style K frame, so that's why I'm asking )

Thanks in advance

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#2 _mello92_

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 07:35 PM

Yeah similar to a Torana apart from the suspension and lack of K-frame bushes. You'll need to unbolt the struts either at the top mount or where they meet the knuckle, I prefer at the knuckle.

Turns out they aren't a water pump:

Will have to degas the A/C. Please secure the steering wheel with the drivers seat belt if you do disconnect the rack so it doesn't free spin and break the clock spring. You could go the other way and take the motor out through the top but access to some bolts would be a total bugger. I find this way is incredibly easy, most of it can be done by yourself. I should also warn you that the 6 bolts holding the frame to the body are one use only, if you try and reuse them you may cross thread them and trust me it's not a fun process to get them out.

Edited by mello92, 20 April 2015 - 07:37 PM.

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#3 _SLR Goat_

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 07:49 PM

Out the top is less work then dropping out from underneath once the manifold is off bellhousing bolt access is easy

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#4 RallyRed

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 08:12 PM

ok...so I read that as 1 vote for bottom, and 1 vote for top.

p.s. Mello....OUCH ...hope that is not your own block?...a customer car?

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#5 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 08:54 PM

Putting the 202 back in there will be much easyer either way I recon

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#6 _mello92_

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Posted 21 April 2015 - 04:22 AM

Customers car, another car swamped him while he was driving through flood water.

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#7 _LS1 Hatch_

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Posted 21 April 2015 - 09:41 AM

Putting the 202 back in there will be much easyer either way I recon

If only I could reach through the computer and slap you...

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#8 RallyRed

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Posted 22 April 2015 - 06:42 PM

getting closer to removing it...having unbolted all this....

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#9 Ice

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Posted 22 April 2015 - 07:41 PM

Looks like the shop steward doesnt seem to happy Col

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#10 RallyRed

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Posted 22 April 2015 - 07:54 PM

nah Gene ...he said something about productivity....then went off and did a shit on the lawn......reckon I'm in trouble......ha ha

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#11 _2ELCS_

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Posted 22 April 2015 - 08:28 PM

^^^^^Gave birth to a Fraud Col ?

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#12 RallyRed

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Posted 23 April 2015 - 08:43 AM

couldn't tell Wayne......it was a rusty colour, and was a bit of a mess....so assume it could have been. ha ha

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