I Made A Mess!
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From: SOUTH Jersey
I posted a couple of pics in the thread about what we did during the RDtib outage.. but here is the story and all the pics.
I have been doing 12 hour days, 7 days a week since the beginning of August, leaving me no real time to do much more than work, come home, sleep, shower, and go to work.. but Labor day provided me with a day off and nothing to do. After a month of 12 hour days, I NEEDED to do something.
So I decided to finally finish pulling the engine out of my Fiat.
The problem is: I neglected to drain the oil first. It was not that I forgot, I just did not think it would be an issue. So, after several hours of trying to get the last bolt that held the bellhousing on the trans off, the block was finally free. I looped the cable from my come-along around the it and started to pull it out of the car.
I did not anticipate that the block would tip and roll over in that cable loop. With the head off of the engine, any and all oil could easily flow out the top of the block.. which it did, in quarts.
All I can say, thank goodness for kittylitter.
And here is what the winningest engine in world rallying looks like out of the car. From 1972 in the Abarth 124 spider up to the very last of the Lancia Delta Integrales, this basic engine design has powered fiat/lancia to more world rally championships than any other in the world.
It also holds 5 quarts of oil
I have been doing 12 hour days, 7 days a week since the beginning of August, leaving me no real time to do much more than work, come home, sleep, shower, and go to work.. but Labor day provided me with a day off and nothing to do. After a month of 12 hour days, I NEEDED to do something.
So I decided to finally finish pulling the engine out of my Fiat.
The problem is: I neglected to drain the oil first. It was not that I forgot, I just did not think it would be an issue. So, after several hours of trying to get the last bolt that held the bellhousing on the trans off, the block was finally free. I looped the cable from my come-along around the it and started to pull it out of the car.
I did not anticipate that the block would tip and roll over in that cable loop. With the head off of the engine, any and all oil could easily flow out the top of the block.. which it did, in quarts.
All I can say, thank goodness for kittylitter.
And here is what the winningest engine in world rallying looks like out of the car. From 1972 in the Abarth 124 spider up to the very last of the Lancia Delta Integrales, this basic engine design has powered fiat/lancia to more world rally championships than any other in the world.
It also holds 5 quarts of oil
