New 3.5L from Salvage Yard - Where to Start?

[chadzeilenga]

Hey Nwoods, I hear you on the funding. It's definitely a balancing act. Hopefully you can get it in and check compression

 

[nwoods]

i dont know if you read about my experience with pulling the engine, but reinstalling is easy with this HFT ratchet (hyperlinked)

That’s pretty cool! I LOVE tools. But our challenge wasn’t access, it was alignment. I started with a seatbelt strap on the hoist, was caused too much angle. Switched to a chain, which allows too much twist, finally used the leveler thing, as well as a jack under the tranny and a jack under the engine plus the hoist, and ratchet straps to laterally pull things into alignment, and after about 4 hours, finally got the two bigger bolts and locator dowels and 9 and 3 o’clock to properly align.

Everyone says it’s way easier to just remove the tranny and keep it all one piece for reassembly, but I didn’t know how!