It’s about time I updated this thread, especially as I’m actually doing some work on the van.
Since my last progress update I’ve pulled the engine out of the T4 which involves removing the front panel to get access to the engine:
Once this lot is out of the way it’s a matter of disconnecting all the hoses, pipes and wires and you’re ready to pull. Except that some bits are real ball ache, such as trying to remove the exhaust C-clips:
These little blighters were a real pain in the posterior, I’d ordered a removal tool from the bay of evil, but it turned up yesterday which was no god as it was 2 days after I’d removed the clamps!
I have found another use for the 27mm spanner I bought to adjust the front suspension though…
The next pita was the lower engine mount which is the fork shaped thing in the middle of this pic:
It wasn’t getting it out that was the problem, it was the angle that the engine was hanging at on the hoist, I struggled to get the sump clear of the mount, but a trolley jack came to the rescue.
Next on the swear list, were the cv joints. The bolts came out easy peasy but I couldn’t get the joint to separate from the drive flanges on the gearbox. 27mm spanner and the handle from the engine hoist came to the rescue and eventually I had the engine free!
Proof that I am actually doing the work myself!
A word of advice if you’re going to remove an engine from a T4, get the lifting chain on the engine and the hook chain on the hoist as short as you can so that you can get the crane arm under the windscreen scuttle. The engine needs to drop rather than lift and you’ll run out of wiggle room if you have the arm too high.
Last night I started stripping the bits I need off the ABL to go onto the AHU, this involved lots of looking at the engine punctuated by actually doing something. I’ve removed the EGR kit and fitted blanking plates to the inlet and exhaust fanimolds and rotated the inlet elbow so that it points to the passenger’s side. The turbo oil feed pipe is now in the way, so I’ll get a braided pipe made up rather than try to bend the current one.
That’s it so far. More stuff to follow…