Pulling and installing both 5m-e and 5m-ge/6m-ge
5m-e
Firstly when you get the car home line them up side buy side with about 150 cm between each car. Take off each cars bonnet.
Drop all the fluids out of each car including water, oil, PS fluid and Gearbox oil. Start on removing the 5m-e. Undo the fuel line from the fuel filter, which is located on the passenger side near the engine mount. Im pretty sure it’s a 12mm hollow bolt.
Unclip the wire going to the starter motor and unbolt the large neutral lug. Unbolt all wires going from the engine to the body.
Now that all the wires are off, its time to take off the water hoses. There is one behind the engine and also one connecting into a vacuum valve. Undo these two pipes.
Now undo the radiator pipes, the radiator shroud and radiator. (it only has two bolts at the top) the radiator needs to be pulled out while leaving the shroud behind – (the fan is in the way)
Once the radiator is out, pull the shroud out. Now its time to remove the fan. I just removed the blade part not the whole clutch part. It has 4 10 mm bolts, use your 10 mm ring spanner here.
Once the fan is out you can start to remove the afm and air induction pipes. A suggestion I have to make to you is that you get tonnes of little bags and put the bolts that come off certain things in separate bags and name them accordingly.
Next undo the 3 bolts that connect your headers to your downpipe, give the downpipe a yank and it should come off quite easily. Unless you have a bracket attached to the block which will also need to be undone if your 5m-e has it.
Now to take off the PS lines, only take off the ones going to the cooling pipe and the pump and reservoir. None of the ones on the steering rack apart from the two that come from the pump and reservoirs
Once the afm is off and the induction pipes are removed move onto undoing the engine mount bolts undo them and put them in a bag named block mount bolts (there should be 4 bolts and 4 nuts) I think there 14mm.
Time to undo the gearbox cross member, take out the 4 middle bolts, there should be an earth wire in one of them and bag’n’tag them.
Now get a car jack with wheels and put under the gearbox and lift the gearbox about 1cm off the cross member. Now undo the cross member leaving the jack under the gearbox.
There is tail shafts brace about 1 foot behind the gearbox, undo that (2 bolts) and let the tail shaft droop down. Do not undo the tail shaft at the join, as this is where the tail shaft is balanced!
Next clean your hands thoroughly and get your Philips head screw driver ready, its time to take out your interior. Start with the centre console and the radio housing, and then take out your glove box. You will notice the ECU is just above the glove box, unscrew this and unplug it all. Now pull the wiring loom through the firewall back into the engine bay.
Move onto the shifter, take off the large rubber boot with the metal ring around it (4 bolts 10mm), take off the smaller boot, now pull off the smallest rubber cover and put the shifter into the neutral position.
Undo the 4 Philips head screws and remove the shifter.
You are now ready to pull the engine out of the car.
5m-ge/6m-ge
Repeat this whole process but with the 5m-ge you don’t need to do the gear shifter removal, you will just need to unclip the 3 waterproof plugs near the Auto gearbox and unbolt the t bar shifter mechanism under the car (1 bolt 12mm I think) on the drivers side of the gearbox. Can’t miss it.
Also there will be auto transmission lines, don’t mistake them for PS lines. These can be cut out as are not needed for the manual transmission. They will leak mass oil everywhere so be sure to have a pan ready.
Note: when pulling the engine out, be sure to have someone under the car rolling the jack along with it under the gearbox and also easing the tail shaft out of the yolk.
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