You can drop the motor out in under two hours if you are a novice. Sapperfire and I timed our last one and it took 42 minutes.
I have no idea why you are romoving intake and valve covers and EGR. Wrong wrong wrong.
Im gonna give you a basic rundown on how to do it:
1. Jack the car up on all four corners..... use jack stands.
2. Drop the fuel tank
3. Drop the exhaust after the cat on drivers side and before the cat on the passenger side.
4. Unbolt the four 12mm bolts from driveshaft to diff and remove shaft.
5. Put the rear back down.
6. Remove hood.
7. Unbolt struts from shock towers, seperate UCAs from spindle, remove front calipers and hang them out of the way, remove wheel speed sensors.
8. Remove radiator, fan, alt, crossover tube. Disco fuel lines (or fuel rail and place on windshield)
9. Attach engine hoist to where the alt bolts to the block.
10. Unbolt all 8 k-member bolts.
11. Disco rag joint and push steering shaft up as far as can into firewall
12. Disco main harness on drivers side.
13. Unbolt power wires and three small plugs from under fuse box.
14. Unbolt ground strap on passenger side.
15. Remove the two small fluid cooling lines on drivers side under where the radiator was at.
16. Remove strap for power steering line.
17. Remove k-member bolts.
18. Disco trans harness and shift linkage
19. Place rolling pallet under k-member
20. Unbolt trans cross member
21. Use engine hoist to slowly drop trans and motor and k-member down onto rolling pallet.
22. Disco engine hoist from motor and attach to radiator support, use strap and not a chain.
23. Lift nose of the car up untill the rear bumper almost hits the ground.
24. Slide motor and trans out sideways.
25. Open beer.
26. Drink
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