UPDATE:
as planned a little while ago on here bomber and keiran were coming down to help me remove the engine from the 172... they made there way down last night ready for us to hit the car today, a good laugh the night before with cider's, curry's and un-expected encounters in the dark...lol,
onto today then, we didn't rush to get up and out the door but where on our way by about 10ish, now i have moved the car is about 45mins away, so the DCi was loaded up with anything we thought we would need and we then made our way....
we got there about 11ish and with the engine crane already with the car we could get going straight away and with dumb and dumber helping me i was sure we could crack it quicker than a rally team mechanic on coke....
the loom was removed a few weeks back and the power-steering fluid and coolant had already been drained, we then drained the oil's and started to strip down any other bits and bobs / bolts etc etc....
it was extremely handy having gray and bomber there as they have both removed engines before, they knew what was where, what could stay in and what could come out,
pretty much the last thing to do before we actually started to look at removing the engine was remove the drive-shafts.... this is where we had a minor set-back, we couldn't find the locking-wheel-nut key..... after looking for a while and then looking at the locker bolt bomber come up with a way of un-doing it without damaging it, good times and we were back on course...
driveshafts out and then onto lifting it out.....
POW...jobs a good-un,
(you can just see all my stuff stack up on the office roof ready to go back in....one day)
at this point we discussed what would be happening engine wise and plans have changed again, we decided from our vast tuning experience ... Gray Motorsport, B-spec Motorsport and um.... Wurzel WRacing... that the F4R was not really an adequate lump, nope... so that was going as scrap, decision made....
i didn't get any pictures of what happened next but i think the guys where a little surprised, the engine wasn't staying with the car, nope it was coming back home (for certain reasons) so i quickly removed the gearbox and a few other little bits from the block...
...and then we proceeded to fit it all in the back of the DCi (engine placed nicely with the crane, along with the gearbox, radiator and a load of other bits, plus us 3 etc etc and we were then on our way home at about 3.15... good times... not rushed but nice and relaxed.... we got back to mine and had the fun job of getting the block, gearbox and other bits in the garage without the use of a crane this time, but with 2 of us and a northern bloke it was simples..... and this is how she now sits....
Good Times...
i must say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to bomber and Gray for there help, traveling from Nottingham and Gloucester just to help me remove the engine shows there are some proper good people about, thank you VERY VERY MUCH guys... love you long time xxxx
