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We get started. I'd just like to point out real fast that the tool tool that i'm about to show you is not exactly designed for this specific. But i think it's going to work out real quick uh short video. I want to show you guys.
A cool party trick on these transverse gm engines. Especially the uh like the older three eighths three fours and three ones uh. I need to get to the spark plugs on that back side. But uh you can see that there's really not much space over there to play with uh disregard.
The intake manifold being removed that's for a different project. But i need to get back there to get to these bugs and uh. I think i've got a clever way to go about that we shall begin by removing this engine mount right here i need to make space and i can't do that with this mount in the way let's just pull this guy off everything's a hammer reverse click okay the mount is out of the way this little guy is going in in its base. And i'm just gonna bolt.
It right in using the same bolts for the mount it's either gonna work or it's not oh you know what i have an idea. I found a longer bolt in my uh pile of spare bolts that should make this operation a little bit more safe okay check this out you guys are gonna like this wrong way. It's not working perhaps i need to reconfigure. I know i know i'll just tighten this down all the way then it can't flex.
There now the idea being as this thing tightens up and gets smaller. It's going to draw the engine away from the firewall one more revision needed. We're going full sketchy on this one yeah here we go some welding clamps maximum sketchiness. This is totally gonna work uh.
Yeah. Yeah. It can it can go a little bit more a little bit more all right now that may not have been much. But the one inch or so.
That i got out of this procedure is going to allow me to get those spark plugs out i thought you guys would like this little tool. It's ancient. But it does its job thanks for watching see you guys later.
Had Changed my head gasket on my 2001 Montana by tilting the engine forward. Removed the upper mount and then used a ratcheting strap to pull the engine forward.
My dad and I used to use ratchet straps to do the same thing on Pontiac 6000's
Put used bolts in the brackets, the use a rachet strap.
I used a couple of ratchet straps for my 2008 Impala SS 5.3L
Nifty, I like😅
I always used a ratchet strap
Hello the newer version of that same tool there's two 1-in straps with 3/8 holes about an inch and a half long they go into that mount bracket really use the right tool for the job bud
I use a ratchet strap to rock the engine forward and hold it, works great.
Necessity is the mother of invention
I hate to "rain" on your parade but that "trick" was used in GMs 3100 and 3800 series of engines because I had a 3100 grand am and grand prix that I used that method. Disconnect the motor mount then using the trans roll the engine forward or toward the bumper to give you access.
Hummmmmmm sketchy 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Some tomes on your sign outs ray, i almost feel like your gonna say "keep your dick in a vice" . Love that channel too
Had a friend many years ago that put a 350 cu in. engine in his tiny Chevy Vega and he disconnected his engine mounts while jacking the engine one one side to give him room to change his spark plugs.
There was a lot of "tool not designed for this" in what I just watched. But, I loved it regardless.
Hahahahha "Maximum Sketchyness indeed – But it worked Ray !
You guys need special tools so much now, I don't understand how some of you make money after paying the tool truck guys for the tool of the week. When I was building machines it was the same way, every week I was paying out to get another tool. Got to a point that I just told one place if they were going to use equipment that needed some new tool I was not paying for it. Because you would use it on that build and then it was never used again.
If you invent something new, you are an inventor! But some times shit happens!!
It's not an improper use of tool if it works for what you are doing. Everythingis a hammer or prybar.
I had a 95 Olds Cutlass you could take the top mount loose on and tilt the engine back by hand quite a bit.
hey, sometimes sketchy shit be necessary to get the job done, by the book dont always work, you either take longer than the job is worth, or the by the book way is sketchier, ive seen that before
I think you lost part of it there should be 2 metal legs off the one side and able to bolt it in straight i have kept mine and I also have the old oil filter tool for the 2.5 gm with filter in the pan.
I know you know they have engine tilters.
I had to change plugs and wires on my dad's old 1986 Cadillac Seville with the transverse V8. It was kind of a pain but not so bad as this car because it was the small 4.1 Liter V8 engine, this was the "transitional" engine Cadillac was using with throttle body injection before they came out with the infamous 'Northstar' design. Fortunately, I have medium size hands, so I was able to get back there and change out those plugs and wires. My dad had been driving it for a while with the engine missing and I kept telling him to let me change out the plugs and wires but he was too cheap but finally he let me do it and it solved the problem lol.
Who was the dumb ass genius engineer that thought that was a good place to put a spark plug, where it is so hard to reach?
I had a '92 lumina v6 that we Un bolted the top motor mount and then used a c clamp to pull the motor forward to get at those plugs. It worked once a champ.
That’s what she said
Sure beats what we used to do, shoving a long pry bar and pulling back lol, great video ray.
Smart!
This video needs more cowbell.
The engineers that designed that mess were laughing at the mechanics that they knew would have to deal with future spark plug replacements.
Every new car I have ever bought, I would look first at all the basic mechanical things that would have to be done in future. If there was any kind of problem then that particular model car was eliminated from my purchase.
The one car I did buy at one time was a Subaru that when one of the headlights needed a simple bulb replacement, you had to remove the entire battery to get to it.
But, I like the car so well that it was my only trade-off.
Great SHOW!!!
Front wheel drive V8 is one of the stupidest design decisions ever.
On the old Twin Dual Cam 3.4L in the 1990s W-bodies you MUST do this for access to the rear plugs. I'm pretty sure that's the application that tool was originally created for.
This is an old trick for front wheel drive cars we do it with a ratchet strap. rock the engine forward then set the park brake .
Sketch-o-meter went off the charts with that move :))
Try turning the front black mounting plate upside down, then you can get your tool in the middle of the bracket.
My mon had a 1973 chevy Vaga 4 cylinder that the Book said to pull the engine to access the rear two plugs as some fool of an engineer pointed right at the firewall. The one on the driverside was a real mother lover to get to but you could get it out with a 1/6" turn at a time with an opened wrench, but that dang passenger side was impossible to get out, as a 16-year old I took a punch, and lined it up with the sparkplug end and punched a mark in the firewall, went into the passenger floorboard folded back the carpet and padding found the mark and used a 1" hole saw and cut that bad boy right out, put my sparkplug socket and 4" extension on the plug from inside and took out the plug, installed a new plug, got everything buttoned up started the car and drove it down to the local hardware store got a 1" rubber grommet popped it in and never had to remove the engine. Frigen GM engineers. LMAO
There used to be a sticker on that tool that said to put transmission in neutral before using tool
Who cut that floor jack in half?
That's what ratchet straps are made for
A few years ago I had the same problem, removed the mount and pushed the car to rock the engine forward and blocked a tire
Had plenty room !!!
Brilliant on the 4th, true independence of the mind ! 😎👍🏆👑
With 4 cilinder you do not need that party trick.😁
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