Lifting EJ20T - advice

[craigusoz]

Hi all - I'm about to lift the engine out of a Legacy front cut that I bought - the engine is going into my Vortex. Just a question for those that have done it before - is it OK to just use the lift point on the air conditioner bracket to lift the engine? That gives an off-centre lift for one thing. I can't see another lift point anywhere towards the rear of the engine.

[Dr. RX]

Hi all - I'm about to lift the engine out of a Legacy front cut that I bought - the engine is going into my Vortex. Just a question for those that have done it before - is it OK to just use the lift point on the air conditioner bracket to lift the engine? That gives an off-centre lift for one thing. I can't see another lift point anywhere towards the rear of the engine.

First, for us US blokes, what is a Vortex? As for the rear lifting point, are you removing it with the tranny still attached? There is a lifting point on the tranny, the tab is usually bent over, but it is still there. When lifting just the engine, I use a small metal bracket that is located near the turbo, or sometimes I just hook up to the turbo itself.

 

Being the technical person that I am, I can't pass this up, if you have a DOHC EJ20 (I've never seen a SOHC EJ20) then the engine number is an EJ20G, the 'T' was used only on the SOHC engines (ie EA82T and EJ22T).

[Qman]

Vortex = XT

 

 

Sounds like a fun and powerful transplant.

[craigusoz]

Thanks guys. It turned out I couldn't seperate the transmission from the engine while it was still in the frontcut anyway (some corrosion on the dowels), so I just pulled the whole assembly, using the pitching stopper bracket for the rear lift point.