Sometimes, size really does matter

Spend about 6 hours at the garage/bakery today (note the wood stove chimney in the background), Lloyd was gracious enough to give me the hours of his day. So I guess I owe him some hours now, but then again, shingling his roof was a lot of work :-)



So anyway the engine, transmission and transfer case are finally out of the rig. It was a rather large object that had to come out of a comparably small hole.



We have an engine hoist so we attached it to the engine block and started hoisting. We started uncovering points that were not disconnected yet (oops) but with some last minute removals and heaving we were making progress.

The unfortunate thing is that the hoist only goes to a certain height . . . not high enough. We were pumping the handle and the engine was being pried from its home, but then suddenly we weren't getting anymore height. Through a combination of jacking up, lowering, prying and persuading we managed to get the engine almost out. It just so happened that after hour 4 the engine needed about 6 inches more height to clear the front clip. So we took the tires off and rested the rig on some blocks of wood. At which point we needed 2 irritating more inches. Anyway, after a series of even more complex, and quite unorthodox, maneuvers we were able to get it out. The last 10% took 80% of the time.



Finally a milestone to be proud of, things are certainly looking up.

Project cost: $1560. I needed a new chain for the hoist.