And so it begins...

[Buffy]

No it is not an Ironman Edition, at least not that I am aware of.

[Buffy]

Got some more work done on the VX yesterday. The motor and tranny are now ready to come out.... I just need my mechanic help to get it all out.

Tech tip here, the common chamber has to come off because there are electrical connections under it. The other interesting thing to note is where the gas lines disconnect.... all the way back on the transmossion..


The wiring headace continues, the wiring harness goes all the way from the drivers side all the way to the rear of the motor on the passenger side or any kind of break what so ever....



Shameless toy picture....


Back to live action.... Motor ready to lift out.....

[Ascinder]

I never had to remove the common chamber at all when I took mine out. But I can see how that might have made things easier. Nice progress!

[Buffy]

how in the world did you get to the connection that was under the common chamber??? Did I miss something somewhere????

[Chopper]

Boy o boy would I do a ton of little things while I had it in this position,,,,like make a better shield for the mode position switch and some other connections....FOR SURE DO THE THERMOSTAT and replace it with a failsafe one and never think about it again.....water pump & timing belt...intake manifold gasket...on and on. You get the idea.
I've no idea what your setup is, but getting the body up and off this car is a piece of cake. It's no more difficult than lifting a pickup off it's frame...in fact it's EXACTLY like lifting a pickup cab up....An easy one (maybe two) day deal.
I'd get polyurethane bushings everywhere while you're in there too...a ton of things....you get to re-engineer a bunch of stuff

[Chopper]

I posted before reading everything.....did you buy this "right"? Do you have room to do all this rust repair, or are you just trying to get it on the road?
Just curious....(I'm not used to seeing rust under there at all) This is a fun project, looks like******(I'd still have yanked the body off it)

[Chopper]

Much easier

[Buffy]

.....did you buy this "right"?

I got it for $1500.00 so I have some room to work with. I bought me a sand blaster and did some blasting yoday. I'll post up some pictures in a bit. Of course it would have meen much a much easier project if there wasn't soo much rust.

[Buffy]

OK... back to the pictures.....

Rust, rust and more rust








Axels and spindles....




Rusty rotors....


Using the new sandblaster..... makes life so much easier..... but a bit messy...


A little less rust.....












Applied the silver stage of master series coatings......