Swap Talk part 2

So today went well for the first half, then it went down in flames. Justin came over and we had the engine out in a very short time. We rigged another sketchy bridle for the engine that worked pretty damn good. Once the engine was out, we took our time and swapped all the little bits over to the new one and I made some kind of attempt I guess you could say, to clean it up some. Then we decided to start installing the new engine. It started off fairly well, but quickly took a turn for the worse, reason being is the bastard child transmission put a .357 to my head and the .357 was the throw out bearing and clutch release fork.  I hate the transmission, its such a pain in the ass and I'll be damned if  I didn't run into the same problem as when I put the AP2 transmission in, the release bearing falling down and the clutch release fork getting stuck towards the aft of the transmission. So tomorrow is another day and the problem will be solved, it just sucks working in the heat with all the humidity here in the south, and I just want to finish something when I start it. On a side note, I figure we're past the halfway point, and the thermostat and radiator cap came in today. I also found some Urea grease when I grabbed a couple tubes of Honda Bond. Tomorrow I hope to have it just about near completion or completed. I still have some obstacles to tackle such as re tuning it and I'm sure all the shit that will have to be tinkered with before it's perfect. Im really tired tonight and have some refresher class at work tomorrow that will be painful.

First time the engine hasn't been attached since it was built. 

Check out the ramps we used

Thanks again to Innovative mounts for this sweet oil leak out of the engine mount bolt

The goods

Giving the new engine a half ass bath

No Heart :( 

New Engine going in! we used the Fram filter for cleaning and then tore it up on the subframe

How it sits over night

Dirty old engine palletized waiting to go to a new home 123000 good miles and memories