Prep for Engine Extraction

Got home from work, worked on the hatchback, watched olympics, and checked my blogger site.  And lo and behold, I got an bunch of views today (by my standards).  Thank you, and here's more updates.

The task at hand is obviously to take the engine out of the car.  You can start ripping crap out, or you can meticulously label things so you know what they were, in the case that you need them again.

Start at the front (front oxygen sensor) and work your way back.  It's a little easier to label the masking tape before you take it off the roll and put it around the couplers.

Let the pictures do the talking:

Also, take plenty of pictures.  In this day and age, when photographs don't need to be developed in a darkroom and are instead just a bunch of 1s and 0s, it's better to have more pictures than you need.

Notice also how extremely filthy my engine bay is.  That's getting fixed.

It's starting to look like progress.

Tell your friends.

the chef