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Originally Posted by LINDS HANSON
Remove bottom engine mount fixings, jack engine on crank pulley (carefully) drain oil and remove pan fixings, tap pan with soft faced mallet until free of cyl. block, lower as far as pickup pipe will allow, reach in and remove pickup pipe fixings now lower both out from under car. New MB gskts required and then refit. Messy but easy! Regards Linds
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This info looks right based on CD ROM (section 01, procedure 3100).
It calls out to first remove the air cleaner and fan shroud.
then the following;
Disconnect battery; drain oil; unbolt engine mounts; unplug oil level sensor; unplug oil pressure switch
unbolt automatic trans oil pipes (running forward to radiator)
unbolt oil pipe of level control
raise engine (There is no mention in the manual about the back of the transmission being bolted to a support plate. I'd think this plate wouldn't like the twist you'd be causing. Maybe you don't have to raise the engine too much. Seems like you could also damage the propeller shaft. - Still the manual hasn't steered me wrong yet and I've pulled the whole stinking drivetrain out already.)