First time engine pull
 

Hi everyone, I have a 89 RS with a 305 that needed to be pulled and rebuilt. I pulled it last night and it was my "first" engine pull on my own. It was really overwhelming with all the wire, plugs, and hoses going every which way! Lol I guess it's just something that you learn over time.

Re: First time engine pull
 

Most important thing is that you may or may not done already

dont take everything apart whenits in the engine bay

take off as little as posible like hoses, wires, fuel lines exhaust, and motor mounts lol

First timers i always see them tear the whole thing apart while its in there its twice as hard lol

Re: First time engine pull
 

and don't ever cut any wire harnesses.

Oh, wiring isn't all that bad. I'm sure yours doesn't look like this:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51...psf62c5f06.jpg


:D

That's my LQ4 swap into a shoebox. I practiced on a couple of '82 Berlinettas before tackling this one...

Re: First time engine pull
 

Get tape and a pen and label where everything goes as you remove it.

Re: First time engine pull
 

@ five7: no definately not that bad lol.

Thank you everyone, it's definately a learning process... You don't learn until you try it and make mistakes.

pulling engine as well
 

my son has a 86 iroc-z . after all the money i put into it < it all went down the drain after gas was put into the intake by the fuel regulator and the engine frooze up. we are about to pull it tonight . still have to drop drive train and transmission mounts and of course the engine mounts. ill be posting questions and updating all of you as well as seeing what @five 7 is up to. im sure ill learn from all of you thanks. vrooooooom.

Re: First time engine pull
 

THIS... this will give me nightmares for weeks.

It's really very simple. Each wire goes to one thing for one purpose (although some ground and some power wires are ganged together).

No reason to make it hard... :D

When you're pulling a stock engine with a stock harness, each connector can only go one place. Still a good idea to tag and label things (note the masking tape labels on my harness). I would include where they're located as well as what they are (Oil pressure switch above oil filter thermal switch in passenger head, ground wire on back of passenger head, etc.).