Remove Old Engine

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Richard Petty '72 Tribute Car: Final Thrash Before Track Day..Will We Make It? (Bonus DW Story Time)

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What happens here

After diagnosing a significant internal engine issue (bent valve), the decision is made to remove the old engine. This involves disconnecting the exhaust headers, draining fluids (transmission), detaching the driveshaft, and unbolting the engine and transmission from their mounts. An engine hoist is then used to carefully lift the entire engine assembly out of the car's engine bay.

Goal: Extract the faulty engine from the race car.

Tools and materials

Engine Hoist — Lifting and moving the heavy engine assembly
Fluid Drain Pan — Collecting drained fluids like transmission fluid
Sledgehammer — Adjusting header clearance if needed during removal/installation
Wrenches/Sockets — Unbolting engine components, driveshaft, and mounts
Transmission Fluid — Draining from the transmission

What they say

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you didn't do it for no reason if you saw the shirts we were wearing in the video this is a new release right here they're all on staplesonautoworks.com i just pulled the headers off kind of set the intake back on all that ate some pizza a lot of pizza i got these two motor mount bolts loose are you spud is under there doing what stuff what are you doing uh just during the transmission took the drive shaft out and i'm gonna bust if you haven't got those motor mounts loose i'm gonna bust him loose and then we're gonna rip this out here everybody is delusional now right now so i don't want we're all a little bit i think what's the definition of insanity doing the same thing multiple times i feel like we're like really good at taking this engine in and out of race cars we haven't even driven it yet but we're gonna you know what we're doing right now you know in the world yes one beater car at a time i need to find the half inch wrench that's what i came over here for you ever notice if you leave comments this works well too if as as the time and intensity of the deadline is approaching to do something your tool organization just goes down the toilet you you know in the beginning you work with somebody put it back you work something back as it goes it just ends up everywhere you can't find anything it's just the way it is put the hook on there i'm going to start picking up tools that's what she said are you pulling no one caught that yeah good all right that's good right now change it in 45 years

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