e36 m50 engine removal

[MARKSDIDDY92]

Im going to be replacing my engine soon and can the compleat engine and tranny be removed as 1 if the front clip is removed. Or is it easeier to split the motor and tranny and remove the sepratly. Now keep in mind this is being done with no lift on the ground. thanks

[nickdrivesm3]

Dude, I got bad news. NO lift? thats not gonna happen. I'm a BMW mechanic in training and w/o a rack there is no way you could properly and easily remove either the tranny or the engine. However if you some how are abble to get it out, I would recommend tranny first then engine.

[rustamd]

I've done the before. What i did is took bumper, grill, radiator, condeser, radiator support off and took the hole thing out, engine and tranny. To take down front end carefully it took me rafly 2-3 hours. After that its so much easier to pull engine and tranny strait forward.



People who were trained to work on lift from their first day have no clue what's possible to do w/out one.

[NOC]

Yeah but it makes it soo much easier to do and less time consumming, unless you have all day to do an engine removal...

[snoman120]

''People who were trained to work on lift from their first day have no clue what's possible to do w/out one.''............exactly. i took the whole front clip off to do my motor swap.its soo much easier to do it this way than to split it and mess around . good luck

[MARKSDIDDY92]

Originally posted by snoman120
''People who were trained to work on lift from their first day have no clue what's possible to do w/out one.''............exactly. i took the whole front clip off to do my motor swap.its soo much easier to do it this way than to split it and mess around . good luck

Thanks allot for the info when you did the s50 motor swap did all the engine accesories mount up to the m/// engine alt, p/s,/a/c, ect. was it worth it to do the s50 swap? What parts did you have to fabricate if any? thanks allot.

[beemdubya]

ehh, me and my bro have removed and installed atleast 5 bmw inline 6's from e30 and e36's. no lift, left the rad support in removed the radiator took the trans and motor out in one shout.. also put it bback in with one shot. get a load leveler for the engine hoist so u can make the set up angle towards the ground and slowly level it out as it goes into place.. very self explanatory.

[nick325i]

don't split them just take it out as one unit trust me, you will spend more time getting your hands to all the reverse torx than doing the whole job seriously

[snoman120]

don't split them just take it out as one unit trust me, you will spend more time getting your hands to all the reverse torx than doing the whole job seriously - definately..........and as far as any fabrication, the only thing we needed to fabricate was a tranny brace. and to answer your other question, definately worth the time and money. the difference is night and day. good luck