With everything pretty much done on the Scion, the engine crane was moved over to the 84 F150 in order to get things staged for the engine pull on that vehicle. I had already disconnected everything from the powertrain so I was pretty much ready to pull the rig out, just needed to get the crane hooked up, which is where we stand today. I needed to fetch the carb base plate to bolt it down, but my concern was the studs used on the stock intake to hold the carb in place. I was putting all my faith in the idea that these studs are of a strength that would support the 1000lbs of weight from the engine and transmission. After putting the plate in place, I had to use a couple large nuts per stud to cover the shaft of the stud up to the threads in order to put the small nuts and washers in place to hold everything down. I used a couple chains to hook the main hook from the crane to the plate. The next thing that had to be done was remove the hood as it is always in the way on an engine pull. In preparation to clean things up I placed all the loose parts in the bed of the truck, including the hood. Since this truck will be put up for sale after the engine extraction, it only made sense to get the parts out of the way of the yard and with the truck. With that little bit of housekeeping done, along with some occasional wasp control, I had one more thing to do before I was completely ready to pull the rig out. Since this field extraction is of the type where the engine crane stays stationary while the vehicle is pulled back as the rig is lifted up and out, I needed an anchor vehicle for our pulling. Of course, the vehicle wouldn't be doing the pulling in this case, courtesy of the power winch that we've been using for just this type of work. I just needed to stage the vehicle, in this case, the S10, behind the truck so I can attach the winch and some chain to the back of the F150. With that little business out of the way we were ready for the pull. Unfortunately, the ground, even with the gravel, was still soft enough that as I pulled the engine up and the weight was completely on the crane, the legs started sinking into the soft ground. Luckily I was able to still jack the engine up without the crane moving too much. I had to go under the truck to pluck the tail of the transmission off of different lips of the underside that seemed to want to hook into the transmission's tail. As I pulled the truck back with the increased elevation of the powertrain, I finally got the oil pan cleared from the top of the radiator support. Once the oil pan was cleared, it was just a matter of twisting the transmission tail around to get it to rest on the radiator support so I could continue to pull the truck all the way back so the powertrain would be fully cleared of the truck. With the swinging rig cleared of the truck, hanging sideways, I was able to lay the rig on the ground and get the truck the rest of the way back, fully cleared of the crane and powertrain. With the engine/transmission out, I pulled the F150 back into the field enough to allow me to back the S10 up between the fence posts and up to the engine/transmission on the ground so I could jack it up and back the truck under the rig. Once it was lowered down onto the S10's bed, putting a shit ton of weight on the rear suspension, I dismantled the crane and stowed it in the S10's bed as well, taking everything up to the garage. I set the crane back up and got the powertrain out of the truck, pulling it to the back of the garage to have it out of the way of other work going on in the garage, as well as keeping the main door clear for when we need to pull the lawn tractor out. The next order of business will be moving the truck to a new spot.
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