Making lots of progress on my loyale these last few days :banana: but had to get rid of that EA82 and 3AT FWD tranny..... 1: remove front suspension 2: disconnect all electrical, vacuum, and other lines from the engine and tranny 3: remove tranny xmember bolts 4: lower to ground 5: remove engine xmember nuts and pitch stopper 6: raise body above engine haha, worked like a charm! anyway, swapped the 4WD rear end in, well, just the trailing arm assembly. Did you know the 4WD strut mounts are about an inch higher than the FWD ones? when we swapped it over (leaving the FWD struts on it) it sat quite a bit higher. but here's a pic with the FWD rear end in it, an extra engine and tranny sitting in the back. this is about how it's going to sit when it's all done:
hehe you stole that iea form jeff and his palete thing. or did he steal it from you when we literally dropped the engene out of the 85 hehe.
I did it the exact same way we did it with the '85. haven't tried to drag it out yet though.....that should be interesting :eek3:
Yeah, we did something like that to take an engine out of a subaru once. We basically unbolted everything and used a tractor to lift the body off the drivetrain. The engine, transmission, suspension, etc were all still connected.
you see that first pic w/ the loyale all the way on the ground? thats what its gonna look like w/ my coils on it
and the last one with a couple hundred pounds of parts in the back with 2WD suspension.....yea, it's gonna be slammed haha, I just noticed today that the bump stops have desintegrated.....meh, didn't need 'em anyway
