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Old 10-24-2010, 10:01 PM
my83300cd my83300cd is offline
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Did mine in the gravel driveway with a borrowed floor jack and some plywood under it. One side went fine, the other was as easy to get out but getting the engine to align with the new one required prying, crowbars and 2x4's to horse the engine around a bit to get it to line up. Oh yeah- that was the side where the mount came out in two pieces...

Clean, clean, clean the allen head bolts before you start. I spent the $$ to get some allen head sockets.
The engine shocks have been covered- You may need to loosen the fan shroud- watch it as you jack up the engine.
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