| [GMCnet] Getting the engine back in [message #75739] |
Fri, 05 March 2010 12:00  |
Denis Leconte
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Registered: July 2007
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Hello everyone! I'm back to work on my coach, after an eternity of not doing anything to it for lack of time and money...
OK, so it's time for me to do get my engine + transmission back in the coach...
I have lifted the front by the required 36" so that the whole thing would roll under on its little chariot, it's there now (front still in the air, secured on very sturdy cribbing). I have installed double chains front and back, with grade 5 bolts in the holes at the front and back of the heads. 2 chain hoists, one to the front chains and one to the back chains.
My problem is that when I lift the thing, it turns counterclockwise, the more so as I lift the front, and it basically wedges itself shortly after I clear the front crossmember with the pulley, at a 45% angle or so to what it should be.
Any hints as to how to better guide it in? This weekend I am going to try and position the hooks on the chains to that the front hook is more to the left, and the back hook is more to the right, and hope that this will do it.
I should add that the front axles are still in there, but that didn't keep the thing from coming out the same way I am trying to get it back in...
I would certainly welcome any advice/opinions on the matter!
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Denis Leconte - denis_leconte@yahoo.com
1977 Eleganza II - 455 engine - Los Angeles, CA
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