Ld9 Engine Rebuild
 

Okay well I decided to rebuild my LD9. I jacked up the HO and noticed the water pump is leaking through its weep hole:eek: . So I started to get to it then decided I might aswell rebuild this HO. Well I will be needing all the help I can get. My cousin is lending me a cherry picker from his work and I plan to buy an engine stand at autozone. So far I gotton is I removed the passenger side engine mount and having a lil trouble getting the dam exhaust pipe off the exhaust manifold. I removed the intake manifold right now just to get something done till I get the pulley puller to remove the crank pulley. Or should I just wait till I get the LD9 out of the engine bay and on a stand? How many engine mounts are there I see two, and should I pull it out with the tranny? again i need all the help i can get, on with the pics.
this is what i have done so far. Is it normal to have oil around the intake ports? Any experts in rebuilding the HO please help? thankz:yahoo:

What are you trying to get out of your motor in the end? Are you looking for a general rebuild, boost, nitrous, or a N/A application? Anyway you go you will be able to find good info here, http://www.j-body.org/, and http://www.quad4forums.com/.

to take out 2.4L motor and tranny in one piece...

-wiring harness, fuel rail, power steering pump... remove all from engine, and move it ALL to the right side of the engine bay. EVEN THE SENSORS THAT GO TO THE FANS, BRAKES EVERYTHING. GET ALL WIRING THAT MAY GET CAUGHT WHEN PULLING MOTOR ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF ENGINE BAY.

-jack up front end, remove wheels

-remove your axles

-remove exhaust downpipe

-remove intake manifold

-leave crank pulley on, you can do it when motor is out of car

-remove engine mounts front and rear complete out of car..

-unbolt the upper engine mount and lower engine mount

-remember to drain all coolant, oil, tranny fluid to ease removal

-remove all coolant lines going to and from the engine (clean up mess)

-remove ignition wiring clustereff put with rest of wiring...

-remove shifter linkage and throttle cable move out of way.

-remember ALL and anything that is electrical and plugs into the tranny or engine must be removed or you'll tear your wiring harness up when pulling motor.

-remember all coolant lines that go to firewall, radiator, or coolant tank must be detached from motor

-shift linkage and throttle cable remember REMOVE THEM!

-it helps when pulling the motor to have the radiator removed from car as it gives you more wiggle room.

-you need a second person to help when you're pulling with cherry picker at least.

that's a general idea of what you need to do. in pulling the motor

^ LOL! Thats better than a Hanes manual!

By the way when you say HO are you refering to the AlerHO or a High Output motor? That could be confusing to some.

Im glad some one said to get the harness all the way to the right... seems obvious.. but if its your first time... yeah.. not an easy task at hand. He is rigth in saying to have a second person with the cherry picker..
when i pulled mine... it got caught up some on the master cylander... so having the second person to pull the whole motor to the left and front helped alot!! i had my motor pulled out in about a day and half ... we didnt work on it the full time but came out fast. the hardest part is getting the exhaust unmounted... i left the header and unbolted the flange... seemed easiest way to do it.

I have to remove the axles? I plan to run boosted but not yet. I will be installing the pacesetter headers with a magnaflow hi flow cat and a megan mgt muff, pluss I want to overbore the heads and add some overbore vavle relief pistons and eagle rods, modify the block for the 2.3 oil pump (maybe if I can do it or have a machine shop do it and how much their charge) HO intake manifold with the 56mm tbody, and not sure what cams to run i want a big lift but dont want to have to modify the HO cams to fit along with messing with the cam housing and the cps any ideas on where is a best buy to get good lift cams that are bolt and play. Port n polish the head and maybe get ss vavles, and maybe just maybe put on a 5-speed getrag also depending on available funds. I'll just forget the headers if I find a turbo manifold and turbo with charge pipes for sell. But Im just starting so please help. Any visual pics of where all the mounts are and how to get to them?

Fug it, I'm going to go take pictures of under my hood right now and i'll show you, okay maybe monday.

hell yeah, I appreciate it spy, cause i cant wait to get the beast done so I can beat all the honda buddys at my work. Take pics of everything that you can if possible step by step (well I guess thats a bit too much but any help will work)

I'll do step by step if you have an engine stand and a cherry picker shipped to my house along w/ a 20 gallon air compressor.

what happened to the pics spy?

I don't have keys to the shop, so essentially i couldn't get in on saturday because Trev jumped out of the shop early, and Sunday is drinking day.

You'll have to wait patiently until monday which can be used buying yourself a Haynes and Chilton manual and scouring the internet for a GM shop manual for your model year.

I got a haynes manual but its does not specify how the engine removal chapter how many mounts and how to take off the mounts. I have an automatic by the way. well its monday got some pics on the how to? I really need help on this and I want to do it, if I dont get help im probaly just going to do the top end head on up. Please help, thankz;)

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the mounts are located at the front slightly to the right, at the back by the exahaust and if you look by the coolant resoivoir tank you'll see a mount and also if you look past the drivers side wheel past the fender liner there is another mount.

EASY!

If you fly me out to TX I'll have your motor out QUICK! If I'm well compensated. heh.

Do you have air tools?

I can get air tools and a compressor

Okay today I disconnected alot of sensors so now I can so the whole block down with alot of room. I just need to know what bolts to remove from the engine to the tranny? Is it the first or the second pic?

remove the starter and let me ask you seriously.

you don't know where your engine stops and your transmission starts?

yeah I already removed the starter

Do I remove the red or blue bolts? Im confused cause it the engine then the flex plate housing (the book calls it the bellhousing cover then the tranny i think. So please help thankz