I ran into this video on youtube today and it made me happy. I've been asking how to swap motors for sometime and never found out how. The shops would make it sound like an expensive task. BS! If you don't know how to remove your Chevy's Motor, Here it is Thanks to my latest youtube subscription:
1. On the pic where the front section's suspended in the air, where is the top section that raps around the top of the windshield?
2. What is that section called (Section that raps around the windshield)?
3. When above section is installed, does it: A. Have rubber seals that connect it with the roof, held together by the pressure of the windshield & being bolted to the front section, ect.? B. Is it connect by a liquid seal of some type? C. Is it connected by welds of some sort?
Last edited by BowTie89; February 20th 2011 3:07 pm.
"Takes a special kind of person, but a vanner no doubt". 1989 Chevy G20 Sportsvan (Trans-Aire) 5.7TBI Cargo Doors (Vanessa) http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3872412
When you had it that far why not a frame off restore ?
SUNSHINE VANS-VAN DIEGO ADRENALIN BY THE GALLON & CHASIN RACIN ONE FOR THE DIRT & ONE FOR THE STREETS '93 CHEVY G30 454 4X4 SPORTVAN EXT 146" WB '92 CHEVY G30 454 BEAUVILLE EXT 146" WB
It's not my van, it's some one's on youtube I ran into this morning. Frame off would be my choice but I'd never known or seen how these motors were removed.
"Takes a special kind of person, but a vanner no doubt". 1989 Chevy G20 Sportsvan (Trans-Aire) 5.7TBI Cargo Doors (Vanessa) http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3872412
Is this not right or something? I'm lost..Don't tell me this is all photoshop?
"Takes a special kind of person, but a vanner no doubt". 1989 Chevy G20 Sportsvan (Trans-Aire) 5.7TBI Cargo Doors (Vanessa) http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3872412
Doesn't look like photoshop, but I think the person who made that video is having a little fun with people. You can take apart a chevy van to get the motor out like that, but it won't exactly go back together by "reversing the steps". My guess is this van was being scrapped but they were saving the motor. Do not cut the front of your van off.
Also technically "frame off" restoration isn't possible on a unibody van, but that's just splitting hairs. I know what you are getting at and you could come pretty close by removing the front subframe and all suspension and driveline. You could then access all tricky to get at places, but really those are not often a problem on these vans.
Common rust spots are all the lower outside body panels, which replacement panel are mostly available for. Also the front subframes themselves some times rust, those are a bigger problem.
Yep, don't believe everything you see on the net !
Everyone knows you take the fiberglass roof off and hoist it through there !
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I thought all that came off was the grill , rad, some wire harness and hoses un bolt and cherry pick it out....whats with takin the cab and 1/2 the ft just to get to the block
SUNSHINE VANS-VAN DIEGO ADRENALIN BY THE GALLON & CHASIN RACIN ONE FOR THE DIRT & ONE FOR THE STREETS '93 CHEVY G30 454 4X4 SPORTVAN EXT 146" WB '92 CHEVY G30 454 BEAUVILLE EXT 146" WB