Well I did it this morning before going to work, yanked the old worn out 318! I had to use every trick in the book today and then some. Pulling an engine by your lonesome is tough when you don't want to damage anything.
I used someones trick on this board of jacking the rear up and placing it on jackstands. Then I starting to pull the motor but didn't have enough lift to clear the severe angle of the tranny so I took the valve cores out of the front tires to deflate. I also used a bungee cord becuase the engine kept twisting on me so that helped stabilize it and keep it straight. Finally with the hoist fully jacked I was able to turn the engine sideways and clear the rest of the radiator support. My only problem was that the hoist was so high that it wouldn't fit out of the garage, so another plan to keep the engine sideways while I lowered it a couple of inches to get it out. Of course it wouldn't roll out, so I had to use a pry bar to make the hoist roll.
Now I get to clean up the engine bay and shoot it body color. Change the torsion bars and drop in my 440
So this Memorial Day week-end I'll be doing some of this
and hopefully in the end
