Project Rollin

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As most of you will remember the headgasket failed on my zed after being badly overheated. i have still been driving it for the past 2 months anyway but today i finally pulled the engine out. lucky for me i have a 2 post hoist and snap on tools so it makes it a bit easier.

I have taken about 100 photos throughout the removal so if amyone needs to see a pic of something in particular or measuremnets of something then let me know.
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Car on the hoist.


The current Zed replacement


The engine bay at 9am today


Half stripped out


Coming out


This is how i looked when i left at 5pm



I started at 9am on my own, then the young apprentice ( a different one) came to help and then my brother came just as we were taking it out. i decided to drop the box out from underneath because i wasnt sure if it could be removed with the motor. it was real easy to take out, it only took us about 15 mins to remove it! from start to finish it took us 5 hours to remove the engine/gearbox and all the goodies. i dunno if this is a good time or not , i guess it is . we decided to take the front bar and a few things like that off since ill be putting on the new AB flug bumper anyway, i forgot to get the AC degassed on friday and my auto elec doesnt work on saturdays s we pissed around to take the engine out while leaving the AC compressor and pipes still sealed up in the bay.

Once the engine was out i pulled the plenum , LH turbo+ manifolds, water pump, cambelt covers and a few other things . this took me about 90mins. then a few beers, fish and chips and home i went.

I dont have the energy to write anymore so ill open this up to comments/questions