I recently bought Scott's 2" lifted 86 GL wagon. I bought it with a bummed motor, no biggie I just put one together and started to drop it on tonight and the bottom bellhousing studs on the engine Start to go in but as you shove the motor back the motor mounts start to hit the motor crossmember. Most of the time once this happens I would just jack the tranny up a little and the motor slides in where it is supposed to. but in my case with the 2" lift the axles cant take the tranny going up any further or they will go snap. Should I take the motor mounts off and them put them on once the whole deal is set up in the car or is there something else that I could do to get the motor in corectly?

 

Jeff

I had a similar problem on my 85 GL-10. I ended up taking off the motor mounts and put them back on when it was all back together again. Someone else here will probably tell you something different though. It worked fine for me doing it that way.

are your clucth and pressure plate fully seated and alighned

Can you drop the engine crossmember? then bolt it back up when the motor is in place?

It should take you 10-15min a side to pull the axles. Sometimes, getting the motormounts back in once the engine's in is a buggar.

What he said: Pull the axels and go from there....

You don't need to pull the axles. Just pop the roll pins out so they can slide off the stubs a bit. Now jack the trans up a hair. Should be enough to get the room you need.

 

Just make sure to get the axles back on the stubs properly lined up before lowering the trans and bolting down the motor

right on I'm gonna try the axle slide idea that sounds like it would work thanks to everyone who replied. If the axle idea doesn't work I'll just start making my way down the list and try the motor mount Idea and so on and so fourth.

 

Jeff

right on I'm gonna try the axle slide idea that sounds like it would work thanks to everyone who replied. If the axle idea doesn't work I'll just start making my way down the list and try the motor mount Idea and so on and so fourth.

 

Jeff

 

I have an aversion to unbolting the mounts from the motor. Probably cause the first time I ever worked on a car with my dad, I watched him cuss and holler about a motor mount.

 

He had unbolted the mounts, and upon reinstalling he cross threaded one of the bolts due to the crazy access angle. No room to back out and retap. He was forced to just stack a few washers on the bolt, and crammed it back into the crossed thread and said F-it. IIRC it was a 1.4 or 1.6 in a 77'ish wagon, so it's not like it was going to rip out from the massive loads placed on it

 

If you're car isn't rusty, then droping the crossmember hair wouldn't be too hard. Don't forget to unbolt the steering U-joint shaft if you need to go that route.