[Vwdiesel] Advice for quickly removing an engine/tranny in a 86 Golf

[James Hansen]

Torch off the entire front clip at the firewall.
Ten minutes :-)
It's an hour to pull the motor out the top with hand tools and a motor 
lifter-outer. Less if you have air. Waaay less if you use the universal 
fire wrench.  Careful around the R side motor mount, you can futz up the 
mount and t belt stuff if too aggressive.

LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>   When I pulled my Jetta's it came out the top easier than the bottom. 
> Pull the front mount bolt a couple others, pop the exhaust spring 
> clips, speedo and axles, a couple hoses and wires and it's sitting
> there!  Front mount and left/tranny mount are each just one bolt 
> as I recall.  
>   Yank the rad, condenser, core support and master cylinder and 
> it'll cherry picker right out.  Axles will probably take the longest 
> of anything, don't forget the speedo cable, master cylinder makes 
> it a really tight fit is why to pull it.
>      Loren
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