{"id":681,"date":"2011-05-02T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2011-05-02T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:21:08","slug":"late-post-but-a-big-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/late-post-but-a-big-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Late post, but a big achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN03151.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[681]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-682\" title=\"DSCN0315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN03151-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It took a little longer than I had hoped to get to this point, but I finally got the engine removed this past Saturday. After dealing with a death in the family Easter weekend, Saturday was the first real Jeep day I had. Fortunately, it was well worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>After spending about an hour beating the hell out of the flywheel trying to get it to move, I called in reinforcements to help. I couldn&#8217;t keep the flywheel moving enough and still beat the back of it to keep the progress going. After a trip from my dad I was able to get the fly wheel off, and then I could focus on removing the now bare engine. Once I got the engine mounts unbolted and one of the mounts disconnected from the frame, a few pumps of the hoist lifted the engine from it&#8217;s long standing home between the frame rails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN03181.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[681]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-683\" title=\"DSCN0318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN03181-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The only problem that I hadn&#8217;t previously thought about was the mounting bolts to get the engine attached to the engine stand. With a 2&#8243; bracket plus up to an int of additional block mount to go through, I didn&#8217;t have anything that would go through both the block and the stand and still have enough threads to attach a nut. After setting the suspended engine down on the engine stand brace, a quick run to the hardware store to source some nice bolts and I was in business. The last thing I was able to do before garage clean up was removal of the front drive shaft.<\/p>\n<p>The next steps are to remove the steering linkages, brake system, and exhaust. Then it&#8217;ll finally be time to release the suspension and axels. Once I get to that point, it&#8217;s time for the fun to start and put the guy back together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_08541.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[681]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-684\" title=\"IMG_0854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_08541-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_08551.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[681]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-685\" title=\"IMG_0855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_08551-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a little longer than I had hoped to get to this point, but I finally got the engine removed this past Saturday. After dealing with a death in the family Easter weekend, Saturday was the first real Jeep day I had. Fortunately, it was well worth the wait. After spending about an hour beating the hell out of the flywheel trying to get it to move, I called in reinforcements to help. I couldn&#8217;t keep the flywheel moving enough and still beat the back of it to keep the progress going. After a trip from my dad I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/late-post-but-a-big-achievement\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late post, but a big achievement<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cj-3a","category-jeep","category-restoration","category-willys","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pE9Qq-aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}