Do i have to remove engine from vehicle to get enough room to perform the job
No purchase a mechanical manual from your auto parts dealer. they are now specialized to almost every car. if its a side mount engine you will more than likely have to take the tire offf and the wheel well. to give yourself enough rum to play in and see the timing marks on the crank gear and cam gear for proper alignment for the new install. F.Y.I. It helps if you get them into the proper alignment before you remove the old one by placing the crank shaft bolt back in after you remove the cover and turning it with a socket wrench until they are close to the picture in the book. there may also be a slack adjuster behind the cover. Be careful and do it by the book and make sure your replace any and all gaskets you remove. NEVER reuse a gasket. As a matter of fact when you purchase the timing gear and chain set. Purchase what they call a Timing chain change out gasket set. It will have every gasket you'll need to replace. Good Luck.
SOURCE: Timing Chain and Valves
I think it's an interference engine but you can check quite easily at this point if the valves are bent. Pull all the spark plugs out, turn the crank so that all the pistons are 1/2 way down their bore, get a piece of fuel line that is just the right size to thread into the plug holes or a special fitting for this purpose, and blow into each cylinder after you have turned the cams in succession so that the valves should be closed at the hole you are blowing into. If a valve is bent, you won't have any trouble blowing into the cylinder. If it's good, you won't be able to blow very well at all.
(1) No need to know if engine block coolant drain plug was available. Once the water pump was removed, all engine block coolant was drained. (2) After removing the three engine mounting bracket bolts, I also removed the mount bracket from the the body and made enough room to replace the timing belt easier.
SOURCE: Need to replace clutch
hands down the trans...under optimal conditions I have done this repair in under an hour. If you were to remove the engine for this repair you are going to struggle aligning the input shaft from trans into new clutch plate when re-assembling. The trans is so light weight a jack is not entirely needed at all and no fluids, coolant or oil would have to be drained as well.If the exhaust Y pipe comes down without any bolt removal problems ,you are basically home free but do remeber to drive out the roll pins in the DOJ (transmission side axle joint)
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