Removing my engine

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clubcabjon

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Sorry about asking a very simple question, but I spent three hours trying to pull my 36 clubcab engine out this week end, but could not get it to pull away from the transmission. It moved about three quarters of an inch and I could not get it to disengage.
This is the first time for a 36, am I missing something?
 
Did you disconnect the thurst rods from the rear of the engine.? Is the transmission comming out with the engine? Did the clutch work properly. Did you disconnect the clutch linkage? Just some quick ideas!
 
Hello,

Can't believe how excited I got to see another 36 Club Cab owner. What shape is yours? Mine is completely dismantled. I have frame, floor, body, paint, uphoulstry work to do. Some of all of it. Where are you located? I'm in Connecticut
I removed my engine ( a 37) about a year ago. The thing I had the most trouble was getting the engine forward past the engine steady rods. They run horizontal on each side of the engine about 1/2 way down the side. Got to get it forward, past these 1/2 to 3/4" thick rods. Do you have front fenders, radiator out? Would make it much easier.
Good luck,
Bruce/CT
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My first, and probably stupid, question is what will support the front of the transmission once the engine is out? Al K.
 
The female splines on the clutch disk could be rusted to the male splines on the transmission input shaft. Or the bearing diameter on the end of the input shaft could be rusted/locked in the ID of the pilot ball bearing. You may want to consider bolting the transmission back up to the engine bell housing and pulling them together as a unit. Then you can carefully work on whatever is necessary to remove the transmission from the engine.

Sometimes they come right on out.........
 

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We have left the transmission in the car and have supported it from below, but will be removing it later. Nothing seems to be in the way to pull it out. I disengaged the clutch and it seemed to operate fine. The radiator is removed and the fenders off, vertually nothing is in the way to pull it, it seems stcuk to the transmission.
I am located in California and have been work for years on the car. I am going back in to redetail the engine and transmission before I put it all togetther again.
I only know of a half dozen cluc cabs in all of my discussions with car owners, what part of Conneticutt? We were back there for a couple of weeks this summer at the Good Speed Opera House (sorry motor heads, my wife made me do it).
 
Al K. said:
My first, and probably stupid, question is what will support the front of the transmission once the engine is out? Al K.
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Al, usually when you pull the engine and leave the transmission in place, you would put a small bottle or scissor jack under the transmission to hold it up.
 
Let me show my ignorance by asking "What is a '36 Ford Club Cab??" Got pix to post? Thanks.
 
Sorry, I haft to ask, how many bolts do you have out of the trans to engine / bellhousing, area?? .. I go with JM 35 Sedan, pull the engine with the trans, and put it back in that way ,much easer ...IMHO..... OLD....BILL
 
PeteVS said:
Let me show my ignorance by asking "What is a '36 Ford Club Cab??" Got pix to post? Thanks.
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A Club Cab is the first open car by Ford to have a rear seat, under the canvas top. Prior to that passengers in the rear were out in the open. This style is roughly what the 39 Ford convertible looked like. I restored one many years ago, and my restoration garnered a Dearborn award when first shown and many medallions.
 
JM ask Vic about leaving a bottle jack to support thr ******.
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Al, usually when you pull the engine and leave the transmission in place, you would put a small bottle or scissor jack under the transmission to hold it up.
 
Al K. said:
My first, and probably stupid, question is what will support the front of the transmission once the engine is out? Al K.
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A short length of pipe, long enough to span the frame rails, and under the input shaft will hold the transmission up nicely, and you can even move the car.
 
I agree, putting it back together and pulling them as one unit probably is the easiest solution. I was going to shot some liquid wrench at the pilot shaft and see if it might break loose. Hope that is not a bad idea.
 
When we pulled my motor out of my 39 ,I was on top "bouncing " ,my brother in front "pulling" and my old man undernieth "prying" and we were just pullin the motor ,not the ****** . America funniest home videos for sure . ****** on a bottle jack ,an that was the contol point ,tryin to get them in a straight line so the engine would slide straight out ,foward,up, OH yea much fun and learning . course the ol man kept sayin "we used to do this in 20 minutes when I was your age ";) mike p
 
might just be the angle of the dangle as they used to say. it don't take much to bind up the shaft which makes it very hard to push forward. just did this the other day and jacking the ****** up a bit was all it took.
 
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