I was waiting for a hideous explosion with clouds of steam and oil smoke any second but it never came.
Once I got to level ground the temp started to come back down again to an almost normal level, but I decided to declare that engine dead and the EA81 from my EJ project car was going in, so thats how the weekend was spent.
Saturday:
Got home from work saturday keen to get stuck into it, when I get a phone call from my brother who was coming to help me, "I'm half way up the pass, out of fuel and stuck in the middle of the road, HELP!!" so went to rescue him, had dinner while the car coolled, THEN we got stuck into it.
Took us a little while to figure out how we were going to lift the engines with out a hoist but once we had that sorted we pulled the engine from the "EJ tourer to be" in about 2 hours and called it a night at about mid night.
Sunday:
Now that we had things worked out we had the engine out of the white beastie in about 1.5 hours, then we had to swap the intake manifold, electronic dizzy and flywheel and clutch on to the new engine, which all went smoothly till we tried to take the torque converter off and we realised someones been here before, 2 bolts came out nice and easy, the other 2 were not so easy, 1 was completely round and the other was severely mangled with only 3 recognisable sides, after trying a few different approach's the one that worked was using my brothers metal chisels, once he remembered he had those the torque convert was off within an hour.
So flywheel on, clutch and pressure plate on, double check all little hoses, wires, etc, all good, now to put the engine in.
Took about 3-4 hours to get the engine in, wired up, hoses connected, etc.
The moment of truth, lined up the dizzy to where I though it should be timing wise (there was the possibility of being out by a tooth or 2), double checked everything for the forth time, looks good, hold breath, turn key......WOOHOO fired and ran like a dream first go
Don't you love it when that happens.The transplant was a success
Total work time about 9 hours
Haven't taken it for a run yet, thats todays adventure, but it does go up and down the driveway very nicely.
NOTE: the funny shaped fat bolt that holds the front of the diff is the perfect clutch alignment tool, always keep one around.
Observation: Why is it whenever you pull apart 2 cars you struggle to find enough parts to even put 1 of them back together?
Jordan
