Your right on the bar across the torsion bars. We pulled the grill, intercooler, radiator and support, headlight stuff and grillguard off and just came thru the front-lots of room. Had to put the cherrypicker on 3000# setting to keep it from trying to tip-mine is kinda old-used to 455 pontiac heads as counterweights:thumb
n the picker. I thought the hardest part was removing the torque converter bolts. Then remove the fuel lines from the rail on the drivers side-get the tool from a parts store, coolant hoses to rad-pump-bottle, heater hoses, dissconnected the two harness connectors up top and the glowplug box, and there are 4+ grounds on both sides of the block down low in front of the mounts. We have headers so we had to remove the drivers side and we also took the steering shaft apart-if you do this remember to secure the wheel so it doesn't turn and ruin a $200 clockspring-the flywheel bolts are damn tight-very hard to torque on a cherrypicker-its like 59ftlbs then 60* and then 60* again I think might check that-but it ends up at like 250ftlbs-with a 14mm allen head "impact" socket. You also need to use the exact tool to replace the rear main seal-don't do as I did and just "knock" it in-ours now leaks and I have to redo it-for free-I just bought both the installer and flywheel holding tool from Matco-$575
but would have been worth it to not have to pull the trans out of a 4x4 for free
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