MK1 Engine removal shortcuts?

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

how about taking pics with a camera of what it looks
like on all the joints, and linkups, and things.. pics
help me a lot!@
--- T Berk <tberk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Edward Effinger wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > We're about to swap the 1.5 with a GTI motor on my
> > brothers 78 rocco.
> > 
> > Are there any shortcuts to this engine removal?
> > 
> 
> - Getting the CV joints loose from the flanges is a
> dirty greasy job. It 
> helps to pin the brake rotor with say some vice
> grips or better yet (in 
> the case of vented) place a screw driver down the
> vent and have it bind 
> up on the caliper.
> 
> - Don't forget the little 'gotchas' like the Speedo
> cable on the trans. 
> It need a big ol honking Phillips. And the ground
> straps under the 
> battery that connect the trans to the frame.
> 
> - If you pull the axle nuts don't roll the weight of
> the car without re 
> torquing them back down. Not having axles in the
> bearings will ruin them.
> 
> - Get some blue masking tape and a box of zip lock
> baggies and a sharpie 
> marker and label everything you take loose and bag
> all the nuts and 
> bolts according to what it goes with. It'll help a
> lot later during 
> reassembly.
> 
> 
> hth,
> TBerk
> 
> 
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