Ballenxj wrote:
It's going to be a pain any which way you do it, but I'm thinking that pulling the hood, grill, radiator, radiator core support, etc. should a straight shot. Now you've got me wondering if pulling the entire front clip as a unit might be a viable option?
BTW, when it comes to automotive, obsessive, and compulsive are generally thought as good things by car folk.
I know it's going to be a pain, and I'm dreading it. The hood is still on, because it didn't look like it would interfere with reinstallation, but you might be right. Grille, radiator, radiator core support are all out, but there is still a metal support that sits behind the bumper, to which the core support attaches, and it's welded in.
Griff in Fairbanks wrote:
1. Remove hood, grill, and radiator. Use a low-arm cherry-picker with a short chain to engine.
2. Drop front axle and bring engine up from below. (This is what is usually necessary with Class A's.)
Gas tank looks great. As for CDO (that's OCD with letters in alphabetic order), better to do it right once than needing to do over ... and over ... and over ...
My cherry picker is not low-arm, unfortunately, which leaves me with option 2. and honestly I'm not opposed to it. If I drop the K-member, I can then redo the suspension a heckuva lot easier.
There's a part of me that just wants to say fornicate it and send it down the road to have the big truck shop install it. They have a lift and can shoehorn it in. The drawback is they charge $115/hr.
