Pace Arrow engine removal

http://s213.photobucket.com/user/Daveinet/library/Engine?sort=3&page=1
Most the engine pics are on page 2. I removed the couch and the dinette, as well on of the front seats. I laid tarps down over the carpet and laid plywood over the top of the tarps to protect the tarps. Removing that stuff was easy and made it tons easier to work around the engine. There is a video of putting the engine in toward the bottom. Getting the engine out of the coach was pretty straight forward. It just involved setting it down several times, repositioning the hoist and then lifting and rolling. Project ran around 9 grand, but that was just parts.

OK, lets ad some info: You want to have an equalizer, so you can rock the engine back and forth to get it out through the hole.

I know, someone suggested earlier that it looked a lot like birthing a child. It was at this point in the photo that I removed the flywheel for clearance.
Below is a photo of the modification to the engine hoist, so the legs would go up over the raised area over the engine.

One other important note about the engine hoist. It has an air to raise it up. That made a huge difference as I was working in a very confined space. It also allowed me to lift the engine, without being at the back of the hoist. I could move the engine around while lifting. I bought it from Pep Boys on sale for 100 bucks. Have no idea what they go for now.

This HAS been covered here in the past along with pix, so you may find it with a little deep archive searching

We had a 1990 Pace Arrow, the motor went out aat about 30,000 miles. It was a Chevy 454. Took it to a specialist and put in a crated engine, big mistake, the engine and the labor cost was just shy of ten thousand dollars. The guy took it out thru the front of the MH. Did a great job, but putting that much in to a 1990 MH was just not smart. He did not change the clutch fan and it went out on the next trip. This MH was the biggest Money Pit in the world.

I owned a 80 that had the dodge engine and had to have a new engine after only a few months. They drop the front axle and drop the engine down.