Originally Posted By: linksep
Originally Posted By: asand1
Setting the engine/trans on a table and lifting the car off...
Unfortunately that's been getting WAY too common... To replace timing belts on a Ferrari, sure, the owners can afford that and there's only a couple thousand people in the world that will ever even have cause to whine about it.
Lifting the car off the engine to replace spark plugs on a 1993-2002 Camaro? Don't think the typical Camaro owner has/had the budget for that. (Yes, I know there was a TSB or something that changed the procedure to "drill access holes in the inner-fender").
Removing the engine to reseal the oil pan on a 1992-2002 Cadillac Eldorado? Sure, maybe the original owner won't live long enough for the pan to leak, but some poor sucker years down the road is gonna end up with that car...
Yeah oil pan leaks on Northstar engines are a real downer. Have to drop the exhaust, which is right under the pan... Seems simple. But to get the exhaust off the transmission has to come out- and of course to get that out, you have to drop the sub frame. I've done that before, working on my back as at the time the shop I worked for didn't have a lift.
Originally Posted By: asand1
Setting the engine/trans on a table and lifting the car off...
Unfortunately that's been getting WAY too common... To replace timing belts on a Ferrari, sure, the owners can afford that and there's only a couple thousand people in the world that will ever even have cause to whine about it.
Lifting the car off the engine to replace spark plugs on a 1993-2002 Camaro? Don't think the typical Camaro owner has/had the budget for that. (Yes, I know there was a TSB or something that changed the procedure to "drill access holes in the inner-fender").
Removing the engine to reseal the oil pan on a 1992-2002 Cadillac Eldorado? Sure, maybe the original owner won't live long enough for the pan to leak, but some poor sucker years down the road is gonna end up with that car...
Yeah oil pan leaks on Northstar engines are a real downer. Have to drop the exhaust, which is right under the pan... Seems simple. But to get the exhaust off the transmission has to come out- and of course to get that out, you have to drop the sub frame. I've done that before, working on my back as at the time the shop I worked for didn't have a lift.