von

Just to let everyone know that you can rebuild your engine yourself with no special tools.

Me and 3 friends just lifted the engine out of the car with no cherry picker. Pretty cool. This has got to be the coolest car ever. I even lifted the engine myself and moved it a few feet. Its an 89-91 N/A short block...

After that I put it in my Geo metro and boy does it lug. Off to the shop for rebuilding. After that me and my friends will just pop her back in.

Gen2

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four other guys and I, lifted a motor and tranny out a 90 civic. It was an auto too.

Dvst8

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cool... i have one question... when unbolting everything... how did you manage unbolt the engine to tranny bolts? i havent attempted it yet but i was just curious...(assuming you did this in your garage and basic floor jacks)

silverrotor

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Beware...their Is a hidden bolt underneath the Starter. The rest of them Is straight forward.

von

Oh yeah dont worry about that. Its super easy. Just an extension and 14mm socket. Thiers 5 bolts mabey 6 I forgot. The starter and the clutch servo will have to come off. After this wedge something in between the tranz and engine so you can dislocate them. Otherwise mabey hit it with a big soft hammer. In my case it wasnt stuck or anything so I just pulled it off quite easily. The tranz cross memeber has to come off for the tranz to push back enoughf to get off.

All I used was a jack and stand on the driver side of car. Thats it.

///3oris

Just a concerned citizen here, but are you talking about your own shop, where you're going to be doing the rebuilding? And if so, have you done it yet? I'm a bit confused by your contradictory statements.

Boris - A Concerned Citizen.

von

No. But you can completly take everything out of car and engine with 10/12/14mm socket and extension. As far as rebuilding you own yeah you can do it yourself to witht he same toolz but you will also need a 1 inch air tool for flywheel nut and front main pulley nut...

I decided to rebuild it at the profesional shop and have them teach me how. Its easy ****. cheap to especially if you do it yourself.

dr0x

Personally I think its easier to break the front pulley loose before pulling the motor out. Then torque it back down to like 20ft/lbs. Much easier than ******* with it once its on the floor/stand/whatever.

von

yeah but with a 1 inch drive tool it comes right off in 2 seconds with no problems

Sniper_X

I think that you mean a 2 1/4 inch tool.

Good luck on the rebuild!
PM me with your questions on re installation, I'll be happy to help.

von

ok thnx. Me and Jeff are doing this custom port job called a Godzilla port. Its underdevelopment but might become popular if it works.

Suds7

52 mm or about 2 1/8th inch for the flywheel.

von

Yeah but thats not what I mean.

CrackHeadMel

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i just bought one of thoes and tore apart my motor this weekend, makes it hell of alot easier to take off the flywheel. 28 monies for a damn socket, ouch

Drifter101

Just goes to show you, Man power reigns supreme... until it gets to a big block

Dvst8

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thanks ... ill note on that.

Detriuch

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pullin and installing a 7 motor is so simple its not funny. just get a few sockets and some friends and u can have it done it a few hours. i just did it a couple days ago in the rain!