Quoth Gerald "This List Is MINE" Skerbitz <gsker@lenti>: > On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Richard Smith wrote: > > Put a hydralic jack under the motor. Unbolt the rear motor mount Unbolt > > the motor from the trans. wiggle it loose and lower the jack. piece of > > Don't you have to support the transmission somehow? The engine is > holding its back end up. > I dunno about them there vanagon critters, but you do on a '68-'71. The frame horns from earlier years aren't there. The manual sez chain it up; I just use a bottle jack. Makes it a hassle to move the car while the engine's out, of course. I always end up having to tweak the bell-housing-end's height on reinstall, anyway. BTW I apologize to Gerry and the list for my rather off-topic "Potty-Mouths" rant. It just seemed to me that wild-eyed free speech goes hand in hand with the sort of ruffians that tend to own vw vans -- but that's no excuse for trolling. Sorry. Joe Not the same old Joe Clark ** jclark@polaris.net Tallahassee, Florida \/ There's life on Uranus. <a href="http://www.polaris.net/~jclark/">Click here.</a> **Floridiana*Fiction*VWs*Computer-Mediated-Communication*Kids*JoeClarks**
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