My Engine replacement odyssey - 1994 HR

Since it was raining yesterday (again!) I worked inside my RV removing the intake manifold and unbolting the passenger side exhaust manifold. I wasn’t able to remove the drivers side exhaust manifold because the brain surgeons at HR didn’t allow enough access room for me to get my arms and hands down alongside the engine without a major loss of flesh. I’m hoping I get a break in the weather today and I’ll access the nuts via the drivers side fender well. Fortunately, the heads were replaced in 2010 (with the wrong heads but that’s another story) anyhow, so far the bolts attaching the exhaust manifold have all broken free and not in half (knock on wood). I’m also having a problem removing the distributer. It’s stuck so badly that I broke off a support rib trying to twist it off. I should be able to turn it with my hand. It may be that salt water from road salt got into it while it spent 16 years in New York state.



Here’s a photo of the engine complete with all the clutter that engines are being burdened with these days.



Here’s a second photo of the engine stripped of the clutter and the intake manifold removed.



Here’s view showing the passage out when I remove the engine (hopefully tomorrow or Friday).



Here’s a picture of my wet & wild worksite. Next it’ll be mosquitos!

The damned weather is killing me but at least I don’t live in Kathmandu! A friend recommended putting up a temporary shelter but with the thunderstorms that keep blowing through anything temporary would soon be blown away. Lucky for me I’m not trying to get the job done over a weekend. To paraphrase the Shaolin master “Patience Grasshopper!”