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Lower Engine into Vehicle

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What happens here

Use an engine hoist to carefully lift the engine. For this specific Escalade chassis, it's easiest to rotate the engine sideways while lowering it to clear the front end. Once the balancer clears the radiator support, rotate the engine back to its normal orientation and continue lowering it until it begins to seat into the engine bay.

Goal: Maneuver the engine into the vehicle's engine bay

Tools and materials

  • Engine Hoist — Lifting and maneuvering the engine
  • LSX Engine Assembly LME — The component being installed

What they say

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but we're gonna put the engine in first i always hate doing this excuse me extreme paranoia does have this thing dangling like that oh from what i recall easiest way to do this on these escalades suburban whatever is to turn the engine sideways lower down to get the bouncer below this and you can turn it again so yeah that's the only way you can do that yeah yeah otherwise you get the engine at some ridiculous angle yeah nothing we're gonna need the floor jack where is it okay yeah the flex please just hit that okay there we go all right we're getting somewhere now it's not always a precision operation i'm trying to help [Music] okay it's like there we go okay oh you're on this wire over here i don't want you to crush it it's okay okay now the fun part of trying to get the transmission on it while we're doing this because i hate doing this process is extremely frustrating every time never gets easier it's always better when you can put the engine and transmission in at the same time but to do that we have to disconnect the transfer case drive shaft all that stuff so it's easier just to do it like this nothing good or nothing where the happening is ever easy to do put it that way we're getting close [Music] are you mom no i mean i'm not happy i'm not like oh i love wrangling a freaking engine and sticking it in there no i hate this i'm not having fun right now but you know what it's a necessary thing to do i can hold it right you're welcome thanks

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