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I have an 03 that dumps exhaust directly into the air vents upon cold-start. I’m going to try this and hope it helps. It’s enough to make you choke. Once it’s warm at all it doesn’t do it.

Fought with this issue a while myself. Swap the starter motor relay with a known good and see what happens.

Yeah I ended up using a tranfer pump and pumping nearly a gallon into it and the. Letting it flow back out the tube into a jug. Almost 3 qts came back out. It seems to work pretty good so far. I’m going to drive it a few days and then repeat that procedure. The concept of that plug-in-a-plug...

I thought some people might be interested in the carnage anyway.

Are those factory or aftermarket units? If aftermarket how is the beam pattern?

This happens: I posted about my fluid level a couple days ago. This was the problem. I also determined I will not be able to reuse the torque converter either. Weeeeee

Yeah. Um. About that... This is where I made a major mistake. This is a rookie-tier screw up apparently. I installed the TC on the engine, then wiggled the transmission onto the engine and TC by rotating the engine until it went on up to the dowel pins. This sounds really dumb, but let me...

The nuts and bolts were pretty easy, it was wrestling the thing around on the ground that was the hard part. I have a sneaking suspicion that I didn’t get the torque converter seated properly. I had to fight it to get on the dowel pins. I may have not been fighting the dowels but the TC. What...

It was level and very hot. I’ll try this again tomorrow after shifting through all the gears and not being too hot. I didn’t shift through all gears before the check. Thanks.

Ok, long story short I replaced my engine and lost quite a bit of transmission fluid but not tons and tons of it. Button everything up and my last 2 tasks are to fill and bleed to cooling system and to top off the transmission. Get the car up to operating temperature, remove transmission...

Dropping it out the bottom sounds fine to me in theory but I just don’t know how to do it without a lift. I have a jack and jack stands and a cherry picker....

I don’t have a lift so I think that may eliminate any chance of bringing it out the bottom unless someone has a creative solution there... When I yanked the motor out of my Camaro (a few times) it was a lot easier with the trans attached. I got everything loose and jacked up the rear end of the...

Going to be pulling an engine, would you guys do it with the trans attached or not? Any advice much appreciated. Thanks!

Any tips for the removal/reinstallation process?

A word about cars in a U-pull yard: they’re in there for a reason. If you need an engine or transmission be very wary of cars that are in there and NOT wrecked. Chances are if the car isn’t wrecked it’s in there because it’s broken. Rarely do perfectly good cars wind up in the u-pick although I...

No information about TTY or not but I broke one as well. I had to use an EZ-Out to get it back out. Talk about nervous... I hope for your sake its easy to get to.

Might be easier to replace the whole engine anyway. My only hangup on it is that you never know the quality of a you-pull-it engine until its really too late. Anybody that isn't a you-pull-it yard is going to want to charge me 2 or 3 times as much. I know where theres an S-Type sitting right...

That's sort of where I'm at with it. Anybody pulled heads in-car before?

**UPDATE*** If you do this change the chains too. I didn't because I didn't consider it. Mine just chucked the factory one with very little warning. Just finished replacing it and fired her up. She's dickered for good. Advice? Opinions? Has a dead miss or two and a hell of a ticking. My plan...

So yesterday I drove an hour home from work with the A/C on medium low, everything was fine. Get back in the car about about 45 minutes and fire it up. Air runs for about the first 1-2 seconds then the blower motor quits. Simultaneously it tells me the passenger door is ajar. If I try to run the...