is it easier to remove motor with tranny

[Tdub90]

ok, ive searched the forum, im prolly gonna get bitched at for asking.. but is it easier to remove the engine with the transmission attached or leave the trans in and un bolt it from the motor?

[BurtonRiderT6]

Well it all depends on what your resources are. I just dropped on out of the bottom at the local junkyard because I was too lazy to go find the engine lift from somewhere plus the car was already sitting about two feet off the ground. I just needed the block though. There are dowels that connect the tranny and engine block. So you would need to be able to pull the two apart. Personally if it was my car and not a junkyard I would have gotten a lift and pulled them both at the same time because it is the right way. Like I said its up to you and your resources available.

[Jarrett]

Both at the same time. If you need the transmission out you can pull it separately, but with the engine you have to pull both.

[TracieS]

Its easier to do both trust me. You can save time doing it with both but you can remove one and leave the other if you pull the motor by itself it just takes patients and a lot of cuss words to put it back in.

[Oreellyfool]

I have pulled the whole motor/tranny out together, tried dropping the tranny out the bottom and just pulling the tranny out the top. I would say, by far, taking the whole motor tranny out together is WAY easier (And I can do it by myself)

I have found (And there may be easier ways to do it but I have not found it) that I spend more time fighting with dropping it then I could pull the whole thing out all together. IMO

[Leung]

i think it just depends on if you have an engine hoist or not what else you planning on doing. When i dropped my auto tranny, i literally dropped from the bottom only using a floor jack and stack of phone books. That was the way my dad taught me if i need to change a clutch since it'd be more trouble some removing the engine and trying to remember where to connect every thing back up again.

[BIGRICH]

speaking from very recent experience.....

both at the same time!

[Oreellyfool]

I would love for someone to do a write up on just dropping the tranny by itself. because when I did it, I fought with it quite a bit. Everyone I talked to would say "Just drop the tranny out the bottom" but nothing more than that, and I had major binding issues with the tranny and wheel-well. After fighting with it for several hours, I threw a couple of the tranny bolts back in, and yanked the whole motor out in less than two hours. (Probably more like an hour)

[Mayhem Tripp Robinson]

out of the top.

Pull the crank pully off, lower the trans side and then come up, Have to take of the header and down pipe and the lower brace and the trans mount off at the trans.

[Tdub90]

Thanks for the information guys, so far i have everything diconnected and un hooked, im working on getting and engine hoist... i ask about the tranny cause, the motor i got outa the junkyard has an auto tranny, and mine is manual, thats why i was wondering if i could leave it in if that was easier... and unfortunately im going from an a6 to an a1

[Oreellyfool]

and unfortunately im going from an a6 to an a1

Hey whatever it takes to get your car back on the road. You can always go back to the a6 later on or an H22 later.

[cloudasc]

unfortunately im going from an a6 to an a1

Just transfer over the following parts from your old block.

Intake Manifold
Exhaust Manifold
Camshaft
Oil Cooler
Oil Pickup
Windage Tray

And your a1, is now an a6.

[redlined302]

As mentioned in the previous post all it takes is a few parts swapped with the a6 parts. Also, you are much better off pulling the engine and trans out at the same time I can tell you from my recent motor swap experience.

[Jarrett]

What cloudasc described is exactly what I'm doing now. I'm using the valve springs also and would recommend you do the same.

[Tdub90]

see i wish i had the skill to actually mess with the internals, i dont have proper tools for head work, like taking out the springs, adjusting valves, or removing the camshaft... i can remove the camshaft, but i dont have a torgue wrench or anything need to do it right.... and there are no cb7 owners here locally that can help me... i need to move where u guys are at