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Removing the engine mountings, there are only two at the front, the rear of the engine is mounted through the bell housing and the gearbox mountings take the rear weight of the engine and do not need to be removed.

The engine MUST be supported by the engine hoist while doing this, it is the first point in the removal where the engine needs to be supported. Make sure the engine hoist is taking the weight of the engine but only just, if you put to much pressure on the hoist it will make getting the bolts out much harder and when you do release the mountings the engine will want to go up and this could lead to injury or accident.

We removed the whole mounting assembly on each side at the chassis and left the top mounting points attached to the engine, the above image shows the assembly which is attached to the chassis by 4 x 17mm headed bolts and nuts. see 1 (Chassis mounting) and 4 (Engine mounting).

There is a nut at points 2 and 3 and these attach the engine rubber mounting to either end of the assembly. we didn't remove both of these, only one from the bottom end, this gave us a bit of play while lifting out the engine. These nuts are hard to get to and the passengerside is the worst.

Getting the spanner just where you need it can be harder than you think.

Undoing those mounting bolts.