I was trying to pull my motor the other day and I took the bell housing bolts out and unbolted tne motor mounts and the motor wouldn't come off the tranny ? Its the t5 is there somthing else I have to do to get it off ?

 

I would suggest that you unbolt the T5 from the bellhousing and drop the T5. Once you do that, the bellhousing will come right off and you'll be able to pull the motor. There's enough friction between the T5's input shaft and the clutch disk splines that you're never going to be able to separate the motor from the trans with the trans still in place.

 

Ok thank you

 

Next time just pull them together, it's so much easier.

 

That's a matter of opinion. I think pulling them together is a pain in the ***. Dropping the trans out the bottom is only 5 minutes more work than keeping them together, and it makes the actual engine extraction a lot easier.

 

There's advantages and disadvantages to both ways but I always recommend to pull the tranny before pulling the engine.

 

I guess I'm the minority here, than.. lol

I've done it both ways and I prefer both at the same time, I guess you'd have to pull them with/without and make your own decision.

 

That's how I learned.

Everybody advocated pulling them together, so on my father's Mustang that's how we did it. Getting the combo to tilt enough to get the motor up above the radiator support without smashing the trans into the firewall was a pain in the ***, then I still had to deal with taking the trans off the motor while it was swinging from the engine hoist. A week later when the motor/trans came back out of my IROC, I went back to my old ways of pulling the trans first.

 

I usually lift the rear of the car (place it up on ramps) and the motor slids right out, no problem... Stone

 

if you have a service lift and tranny jack then take the tranny out, then lower car and remove engine

If you're doing it in your garage and only have jack stands, yank em both together.

I've never had any issues with raising the engine and tilting it

And it's so easy to remove the tranny from the engine. A tire laying on the ground, lower the hoist until tranny is on the tire, unbolt, done

no falling tranny

But, bear in mind that i have a very large cherry picker which has a long extendable boom and goes high when needed