Dear Prime members,
Here shortly, I will be doing my 60k miles service. I will be looking at replacing the following:
-Timing belt + other components belts
-Water pump
-All the gaskets (vc, oil pan, wp, etc)
-Majority of the seals that could possibly deal with any leakages.
-Changing all the fluids
-Anything else that will need to be.
Here is the list.
So my question now is, should I remove the motor to perform the service? Or should I just leave it in there and perform the service?
Based on the knowledge, and expertise of my mechanic, I trust him every bit to let him perform this job on my car. I will also be there to assist him with this service so I can get to know the car better. With that being said, due to the nature of things and tight space, do you guys recommend that I remove the motor?
After reading multiple posts about engine removal, I can see that the task can be performed fairly easy and fast. With that being said, that is the main reason why I think that removing the motor would be best to avoid complication with working in a tight space. We would also get full visual of my motor to see if there anything else needed to be replace during this maintenance.
Removing motor: 3 hours
Services : 3 hours
Installing motor : 3 hours
Miscellaneous : 2 hours a total of 10 hours
Versus doing the service with the engine in, fighting the tight space, could take up to 10 or so hours.
A better question would be, which plan is better and more beneficial.
Please share your input,
Thank you
Here shortly, I will be doing my 60k miles service. I will be looking at replacing the following:
-Timing belt + other components belts
-Water pump
-All the gaskets (vc, oil pan, wp, etc)
-Majority of the seals that could possibly deal with any leakages.
-Changing all the fluids
-Anything else that will need to be.
Here is the list.
So my question now is, should I remove the motor to perform the service? Or should I just leave it in there and perform the service?
Based on the knowledge, and expertise of my mechanic, I trust him every bit to let him perform this job on my car. I will also be there to assist him with this service so I can get to know the car better. With that being said, due to the nature of things and tight space, do you guys recommend that I remove the motor?
After reading multiple posts about engine removal, I can see that the task can be performed fairly easy and fast. With that being said, that is the main reason why I think that removing the motor would be best to avoid complication with working in a tight space. We would also get full visual of my motor to see if there anything else needed to be replace during this maintenance.
Removing motor: 3 hours
Services : 3 hours
Installing motor : 3 hours
Miscellaneous : 2 hours a total of 10 hours
Versus doing the service with the engine in, fighting the tight space, could take up to 10 or so hours.
A better question would be, which plan is better and more beneficial.
Please share your input,
Thank you