55.2-59 Pulling an engine/tranny out of a van advice...I know someone has done it??

[mick53]

I had a friend that cut his entire van into "under 2' steel" with a sawzall to get more money for it. It took him a week and he had more in blades than he got. He has never lived it down.

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by mick53

I had a friend that cut his entire van into "under 2' steel" with a sawzall to get more money for it. It took him a week and he had more in blades than he got. He has never lived it down.

Back a few years ago when scrap metal was seriously high I was hauling a load one day and heard another guy ask a third guy why he hadn't cut his load into smaller pieces to get more money and his answer was exactly that, it cost more to cut it up than the difference in price.

Back in the early 70's I was at a machine shop that I took my parts to a lot (they were doing the heads for my T bucket then) and there was this huge red bearded dude cutting a Corvair up with an axe out back. I had to ask why he used an axe rather than a torch or other cutting device and his answer was "torches cost money to run" After that I cut 4 or 5 cars that I scrapped out with an axe and if you know what you are doing it goes pretty fast. That was frame and all on a Chevelle.
Side story, I met my best friend one day when I was cutting a car up with an axe and he walked over to see what the noise was all about. He told that story for years especially when someone said they didn't have a way to cut a hulk up.

Back to Missyblue's ponder, I have several old yokes that I saved over the years to stick in the back of transmisisons I pulled including one I cut down and put a pull ring on. A couple of Them aren't good for anything except being a plug for a transmission.

If you take it out the front you will have to remove the exhaust pipes and most likely remove the starter.