Sunday engine pull

[neptunonc at yahoo.com (Neptuno)]

This is one of the greatest Monday morning reads I have had in a long time.
   
  THANK YOU!!
   
  EL Tony

Gordy Stedman <ydrogs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Worlds biggest cherry picker!
http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/88JETTA/photo#5095312499978558242
So here is the story. I have been working in Albuquerque for 2 weeks on a
new Costco. The first day I arrived after work hours and noticed this white
Jetta parked on the job site and did not think much of it. It continued to
be parked in the same place day after day. I thought it was one of our
subcontractors workers car that was broken down. Last Friday they were
cutting the dirt grade for the parking lot and noticed they cut around the
Jetta so I asked our superintendent what was up with it. He told me that it
has been abandoned there for over 2 months while the work on the job site
has been going on for a month. The plates expired May of 06 and they called
the police to get it removed but the cops said it was not stolen and on
private property so they could not tow it away. For all those who think I
am a thief he said it was going to throw it in a dumpster and hauled off by
our disposal company. I said let me get some things off of it first before
you junk it. So I got to check it out to see if there was anything cool to
take out of it. I look under the hood and see it is a 1.8l RV with an ASF
tranny with digifag. Since I am out of spare engines and I am sick of my
AUG tranny and CIS I start thinking of how I can get it out while still
working 10 hours a day. I ask my boss if he cares if I pull the engine and
he does not give a shit but thinks I am insane. They moved the car next to
our job trailers with a fork lift on Friday to a flat area. So I work
Saturday and then get off and go to Target. I get a $20 set of shitty
tools, 2 ratchet straps, bucket of zip ties, shop rags, junk pair of pants
and cheap shirt, hand cleaner and painters tape.
This morning I get there at 8:30am and begin to strip away at the A2. I
borrowed a set of tools from my boss so that helped out. I got everything
out and off while it was on the ground but needed to get under the car to 86
the drive lines and exhaust. We wrapped a tow strap around the front sub
frame/bumper assembly and used the forklift to lift the front of the car 6'
up (wish I had a photo of that). Since I do not travel with a 30mm socket
and breaker bar or a 8mm triple square (which I will now pack every time) we
decided to remove the drive lines with a chop saw since we had one in our
tool inventory. Tricky getting the 15" blade in there but it cut thought
the solid driver side like butter but also got the front solid brake line in
the process, oops. I used a saws all from our carpenters trailer to cut
through the rusty exhaust bolts from the DP to the cat. We put the car back
on the ground and wrapped the tow strap around the tranny bell and used the
pick point on the alternator bracket and lifted the engine up while I undid
the motor mount bolts. That bad boy slid right out. We had a spare pallet
lying around so we put it on that and I strapped her down around 1pm. I
will push it to the back of one of our containers and wait till it gets
trailered back to Portland. Here are other pictures of the process:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/88JETTA
The engine spun 360 after I pulled out the plugs and the tranny shifted into
all gears so I am stoked. I also found a pick-n-pull yard in Albuquerque
that I might hit before the day is over to see if there is any Scirocco
treasures there. Can not figure out why all my coworkers want to go to the
casino on their day off when there is so much fun VW stuff to do here :)

PS- I look at this as helping out the environment by recycling a used engine
to keep another Scirocco alive VS it being grand theft auto. God I hope I
do not go to jail for being a Scirocco freak.

-- 
Gordy
MK1 x 5
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