2014 6.2 bit the dust

JONBLARC7 · February 3, 2020

For those clips on the back of the intake. Un-bolt the in-take completely then pick it up and push the front of the in-take over the the drivers side as far as you can.

Then come in from the the passenger side behind the intake. And use your tool to pop the clips out.

Then cut those bitches off and never think about them again.

Snowcamo · February 3, 2020

New motor is in and mostly bolted up. Need to tidy up some wires, put on exhaust, coolant hoses, etc. Getting there!

Public service announcement. Hopefully you never have to, but if you do this, CHECK THE NEW FLEX PLATE. It didn’t fit my converter. Care to guess at which point I figured that out???

Nice! Did you remove the hood to R&R the engine? Scale 1-10 difficulties with engine hoses and wiring?

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bdbake01 · February 3, 2020

33 minutes ago, Snowcamo said:

Nice! Did you remove the hood to R&R the engine? Scale 1-10 difficulties with engine hoses and wiring?

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Hood came off, that thing is stupid light. So light that is almost disorienting. I think the paint weighs more than the actual metal.

Hoses were super easy. The wiring on the other hand, I'd give them a solid 7. Reason being that some are routed in impossibly hard places to get to. For instance, there's a harness that runs down each side of the block skirt and are attached witch christmas tree plugs to holes on the skirt right where the the oil pan bolts up. Which happens to be under the motor mounts. But you can't get to it from any angle, so I had to remove what I could, make some slack, lift the engine, THEN destroy the plugs and remove the wires (cause let's face it, they're hateful and of satan himself), and then reassemble in the same manner in reverse. Same for the stuff on the back of the intake/engine. Super hard to get to and remove. As for hoses, get a set of remote cable pliers made for removing those crazy strong spring clamps and you're golden.

bdbake01 · February 3, 2020

47 minutes ago, JONBLARC7 said:

For those clips on the back of the intake. Un-bolt the in-take completely then pick it up and push the front of the in-take over the the drivers side as far as you can.

Then come in from the the passenger side behind the intake. And use your tool to pop the clips out.

Then cut those bitches off and never think about them again.

Precisely what I did! I even went so far as to snake the intake out from under the intake cover, only took a second.

tlaw91 · February 3, 2020

You guys are crazy! I’d never do one without taking the front end off! But I do this daily so I can’t be hurting my back [emoji23]

You see in my pic the Yukon has the entire front end off, after that it’s easy money getting everything out. No bending over either. I hate bending over to work. It hurts! Lol

L86 All Terrain · February 3, 2020

On 1/31/2020 at 10:52 PM, bdbake01 said:

Oh and if I ever find the POS that thought it’d be funny to attach every wire and tube to the back of the backside of the friggin motor with 300 Christmas tree clips and then mount the motor 0.003” from the firewall AND THEN shove 4” of heat reflective sound deadening material in there, we are gonna have words. Not nice ones.