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

[Terry Briggs]

we had to move further back twice, apparently range control thought we 
were just a little too close :-}
On Mar 28, 2007, at 1:32 AM, James Hansen wrote:

> 4 minutes...
> s"matter, you guys had too many beers and forgot caps?
> LOL!
>
> -James
>
> Terry Briggs wrote:
>> years ago at Camp Lejeune, we removed the entire engine from a 5 ton 
>> truck in a little less than 4 minutes, of course it wasn't neat, as a 
>> matter of fact it was down right messy, of course you'll get that 
>> when you use a pound of C-4 :-}
>> On Mar 27, 2007, at 3:43 PM, James Hansen wrote:
>>> 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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