Removal was easy...

[Efrain68912]

...but putting that engine (with trans attatched) back in the car is a pain when you only have ONE jack. Can anyone offer some advice? Last time it took me an hour, would like to do it in a more efficient manner.

Efrain
68 912 Coupe

[josh912]

Borrow another jack!!!!! Or buy one. They're really cheap.

Just out of curiosity, how DO you put the engine and tranny back in with only 1 jack?

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Joshua Harrison
Porsche owner at heart

[cbbest]

One person, one jack, no problem. Takes just a few minutes if the car is ready. Heres how I do it...

1)Get the rear of the car up as high as your jack stands will go.

2) remove rear valence.

3) Clean the floor of all items that might keep a jack from rolling around.

4)Here's the tricky part. Getting the engine/tranny on to the jack. I usually just go for a Heculean effort and lift the engine up just enough to drag it over the jack. Having a piece of wood under the tailstock of the tranny helps. Some help here is not a bad idea, but if your strong, stupid, and in a hurry, it can be done solo. If you get the jack right where the engine and tranny join, you should be able to rock the engine up and down with very little effort (this will be inportant in a bit).

5)Slide the engine/tranny under the car. Jack the engine partway up.

6) Second tricky part. Grab the muffler with both hands, push down so the shift linkage at the end of the tranny points upward somewhat and is lined up with its appropriate hole in the body, and push the engine/tranny/jack forward until the linkage is sticking through the hole. Don't pust the engine off the jack!!! (the clean floor, remember?) At this point, the bulk of the weigh is still on the jack, with the shift linkage resting lightly on the opening in the body.

7)Jack it up the rest of the way, keeping forward pressure on the jack so the shift linkage doesn't pop out of the hole. The engine/tranny will "pivot" about the shift linkage and as you jack up the engine, the rear mount should come right up in line. Put the bolts in, jiggle the engine/tranny around a bit to get the forward mount to line up, and your done.


Hope this made sense. Its probably imperative that you have a good jack to do it this way. I'm no expert, but last time I did this it only took about 15 minutes once the car was up.

Cb

[pokemon]

I use a four wheel trolley (1m*0.5m) to move the engine around and in-out the car. Use some wooden blocks between engine and trolley.
To get the engine in it goes like this:
- rear valence removed
- lift the car high enough so the engine-trolley can be rolled underneath it. Center it more or less.
- lower the car side by side so to keep it more or less horizontal
- put a lift under the gearbox nose and lift it up to the same heigth so the gearshift rod lines up with the hole in the body
- push the engine-trolley forward till the gearbox rod sits in the hole.
- fix the gearbox bolts to the body
- remove jack from under gearbox
- put the wheels back on and remove the jacks.
- sit on the back of the car to lower it a bit further. (The body sits to high without the engine weight to get the bolts fitted.)
- fit the two engine bolts
- remove wooden blocks and trolley
When I first did this I was pretty worried. Never had removed a car engine before but it all went smooth.
With the engine on a trolley jack it will go faster but I find it too unstable.
I'm mostly working on my own and like the added stability of the engine on a normal trolley + you can move the engine straight to your workspace. No need to load it from the trolley jack onto the floor.