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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 01.jpg (45456 bytes) 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 strafront.jpg (50493 bytes)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. 

image11.jpg (70803 bytes)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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