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There are a couple of ways people take the engines
out of a 205, some drop the subframe, lower the engine
towards the floor and jack the shell up over it. Im too lazy for that and
also the car is on quite a steep hill so we done it using a crane and jacked
it up through the engine bay.
I
spent the night before looking through the Haynes manual at how they recommend
to take it out, but it is quite stra ight
forward. Friday afternoon after work I parked the car on the drive and
drained the gearbox and engine oil out the car whilst it was still warm.
Next thing was cracking the wheel bolts cause I always forget that bit,
then jacked it up and supported the underneath with axle stands. The next
bits to come off were the front bumper, valence, grill, headlights and
radiator with the cowling. These bits needed removing so that the engine
could be swung forward and out of the bay whilst the bonnet is left in
place. The battery, airflow meter, air box, and all the connecting pipes
were taken off just so it got rid of some clutter and let me see what
needed to be undone below them.
With
the car jacked up and the wheels removed, we dropped the disks and calipers
out the way so we could have access to the hub and driveshafts. These
just pull out, well one did, the drivers side shaft was stuck in the middle
bearing and needed a little persuasion with a hide hammer until it came
loose. Once loose I removed all the hoses from where they are attached
to the car, so they came of the heater matrix, water reservoir, and the
rusty metal hose in the drivers side wheel arch. The fuel hoses to the
fuel rail were taken off as well as the downpipe to the exhaust.
This
left the engine only attached to the car with its 3 mounting points so
we wheeled in the engine hoist and took the tension with the crane before
cracking the bolts. First we undone the bottom mount and removed it from
the car incase it got caught with the engine as it was lifted, then the
top two were undone and we lowered the engine with the gearbox still attached
until the gearbox mounting thread cleared its hole. As we started to lift
it out we had to tilt the engine around 45 degrees so that it wouldn't
get snagged on the wing, but other than this the engine came out fine.
Just hope the next one goes in aswell :).
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