Engine swap – getting enough clearance with a Quickjack

[986RennWagen]

Curious, what is the total clearance needed to drop the engine? Dropping a 914 engine is a piece of cake, figured this would be a similar process (more to unbolt, obviously)

[elgyqc]

Originally Posted by 986RennWagen

Curious, what is the total clearance needed to drop the engine? Dropping a 914 engine is a piece of cake, figured this would be a similar process (more to unbolt, obviously)

Your are right there is a lot of stuff to disconnect. If you have a lift the actual engine removal is not too bad, my problem is that the Quickjacks, that are great for most jobs, come up just a bit short for wheeling the engine out. If I remember it is the bolts where the diagonal reenforcing pieces attach that are the lowest point.
I don't remember what the necessary clearance is... but is a couple of inches more than the lift of a Quickjack 3500.

[elgyqc]

I got the engine out from under the car this morning. It did not go as planned. Although the low boy dolly is a good idea I ran into a problem. I lowered the engine with jacks under the engine and the transmission, then use my engine hoist to lift it off the jacks, remove the jacks and then lower the engine. Lowering it onto a furniture dolly is no problem, but with my low boy dolly (explained above) the engine is too wide to go between the legs of the engine hoist. So after much playing around (complicated by the fact that the engine hoist's hydraulic cylinder leaks down fairly rapidly, so the hoist will not hold a weight) I went back to the furniture dolly.
Happily, the other changes to the procedure mentioned in the first post were enough to get the rear of the car high enough that the engine, on the furniture dolly, just squeaked under the suspension mounts and the rear bumper. I didn't have to remove the bumper cover. I plan to find a way to do this without the engine hoist, if possible.

Originally Posted by 986RennWagen

Curious, what is the total clearance needed to drop the engine? Dropping a 914 engine is a piece of cake, figured this would be a similar process (more to unbolt, obviously)

The removal as described was with the bottom of the bumper cover 28 1/2" off the garage floor (measured at its lowest point beside the cutout for the exhaust) sitting on a 5 1/2" furniture dolly.

[Bush Pilot]

Originally Posted by 986RennWagen

Curious, what is the total clearance needed to drop the engine? Dropping a 914 engine is a piece of cake, figured this would be a similar process (more to unbolt, obviously)

The poster appears to have an engine stand that is a few inches off the ground so it’s not clear to me that the quickjack is t high enough. It depends upon how high the engine stand is.