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If pulling just the engine, it's quick and relatively easy to do with all the body work still in place. Maybe take the hood off, maybe not. Depends on your angle of attack, but it does make it easier.
If pulling the trans with the engine as an assembly, I would take the clip off just for ease of pulling forward with less tilting and manhandling involved.
If needing to do more work in the compartment and firewall work, pull the clip off just to make it easier. I did a lot of work on mine just fine, but if doing it again would probably pull it all off.
If you need to keep the truck parked in front of the house in a neighborhood and are not sure of your neighbor's feelings on the subject of torn-down vehicles and body parts strewn about, leave it together as long as you can. Otherwise, if the neighbors are cooperative, the sky's the limit!
Same here. Keeping the hood intact makes it a game changer and I will definitely try it that way next time. Manhandling the hood by myself is a job in itself. Did you notice when pulling the whole clip with the hood attached if it was putting a lot of stress on the hood hinges causing them to bend or bind?
Same here. Keeping the hood intact makes it a game changer and I will definitely try it that way next time. Manhandling the hood by myself is a job in itself. Did you notice when pulling the whole clip with the hood attached if it was putting a lot of stress on the hood hinges causing them to bend or bind?
You are probably right . Take the entire front end off instead of just the hood
you can have the engine out of these trucks in 45 minutes if you know what you're doing. These engine bays are huge, no need to pull anything but the fan and shroud
Or one man and a cherry-picker/engine hoist.
At the point in the picture, I was pulling the hoist back away from the truck to pull the slack out of the chains and straps, and then I would pick up the rear of the clip and move it back to put more slack in the hoist - the purpose of that was to avoid scratching the bottoms of my fenders. Repeat until clear of your working area.
Front clip bolts as I remember were of course the two frame mounts near the radiator, the six bolts and nuts which go through those firewall 'horns.' Then two bolts in the door jambs about halfway between the rocker and the cowl, and lastly the two bolts which secure the bottoms of the fenders to the rockers. So I think it's six bolts on each side.
Then, or first, you need to disconnect all of the wires and hoses which lead to anything which is attached to the inner fenders and rad support - IE voltage regulator, ignition box, windshield washer reservoir ETC.
Thanks everyone! I'd definitely been left to my own devices there... Hopefully I'll have more time the next time I lift it off of there, as I think a better idear would be to build a wooden brace to fit under the inner fenders, which would hopefully enable me to balance it and have it fully off of the ground, for lift-off and removal - as well as for putting it back on.
If the wheels and tires were off, or off of the ground, then I could've put cardboard under the rear bottoms of the fenders, to keep them from scraping on the ground.
