do you have anything nice to say? wheels for the back are not ghetto. Yeah I would never trust my car to be supported by WHEELS.. thats just stupid, IMO. If the brake lines come loose easily, then no need to do all that junk.

 

Use the parking brake. Problem solved.

Please explain this without sounding too stupid.

The name brand Rhino Ramps they sell are good for 4000 pounds.
http://www.rhinoramps.com/8000.html
Devide that roughly in half and and there is no possibility of overload or failure. Using cinder blocks under a car is simply retarded and the proof is easily found with a google search.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cinder+block+jack+stand

The risk of using a hammer is possible damage to the front main bearing and the thrust bearing. You got lucky. The correct way is a hub install tool or some all thread, a couple nuts and bolts that costs every bit of $1.50 or so plus tax. Why take a chance?

All I am doing is defending my opinion which one can accept or reject. Maybe I should have clarified, that if the rear brake line is seized to the ABS module, which is amost always the case, then there are better ways of breaking it loose than using vice grips (as shown in a pic in this thread) that will scar and damage the flare nut which might result in having to cut the rake line and reflaring it.

It is simply my opinion that wheels/tires under the rear to support the car are ghetto when you can use the correct tool, in this case ramps. Its the engineer in me so sue me. Use whatever you want. I was simply trying to add useful advice, based on experience to the thread. I will now leave your thread. Good luck.

 

nah im just being a ***** i guess, all discussion is good discussion.

 

I pulled mine the same way and it only took me about 2 hours to get it out. It's so much easier then pulliing it through the top of the vehicle

 

Sorry I'll have to disagree on this one. I'll bet a million shade tree mechs. have done this and I have never heard of a tire or wheel being damaged!!! If you want to get technical the "right" way to do this is with a two or four post lift. But not many can afford to have these installed in their home garage.
If your Camaro pulls .9G's your putting around 6650lb. of force on the two outside tires/wheels. Given the safety margin built into the tire/wheel I doubt putting the back of the car on them could possibly hurt!!
And before we had cool tools for installing balancers, they were amost all tapped on with a BRASS hammer or punch.

 

which sensors are these connectors for? and how the hell do I remove them without breaking them? PS if your oil looks like this, time to buy a new engine =)

 

On the passenger front there is a bolt that sticks out about an inch and a half... snagged my power steering line and gave it a slight bend. Not comfortable with the bend, I replaced the line... but something to look out for when dropping the engine.

 

The first picture is your oil level sensor - there's a clip plug that plugs into the end of it. Here's an e-bay auction link showing a brand new LT1 oil level sensor and you can see the end where the plug and clip go. That should give you an idea on how to get the plug unplugged on yours.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/92-03...#ht_1909wt_799

Here's a picture (courtesy of Shbox) that shows the oil level sensor plug:
http://shbox.com/1/harness8.jpg

Second pic is the knock sensor plug - squeeze each side where the arrows are to make it an oblong instead of perfect circle and it will pop off the knock sensor.

 

Unless I don't understand this correctly, this is way overstated. At rest, your 347;0 pound car puts an average of 867.5 pounds on each of its' wheels with 0 lateral g's. When cornering at 0.9G, you get an average lateral force equal to 90% of the weight of the vehicle on each of the 4 tires, unless you have two of them off the ground. Sure, weight transfer affects that average but I can't see how a 3470 pound car can generate 6650 pounds of lateral force. It would appear to me that the number is somewhere in the region of 780 pounds per wheel.

I'm sure once Injuneer sees this he can correct my faulty thinking and straighten out this equation.....

 

Isn't that second pic the plug for the transmission electronics?

But removing it is as stated- squeeze to elongate...

 

awesome thanks

 

Thanks a lot! The low oil level is a PITA whats the trick? I used a combo of yanking the wires and a tiny screwdriver to pry back the retaining clip or whatever you'd call it. by the way, look what I ended up buying to make this whole thing easier..

 

Yeah you know looking at it again you're 100% correct - that's the transmission plug. Knock sensor is more oval shape.

 

You are correct. This is what happens when you don't double check your numbers. I used 3500lb. for the car weight so at .9G's you would have 3150lb. not 6650! $^&o))_*##!!!!!!! Anyway most of this weight is being carried on the outside TWO tires not equally on all four, so you still have around 1575lb. per wheel. I'm sure you've seen the stunt drivers, driving their car up on two wheels. In this case ALL of the weight is on the two wheels with the loads almost completely sideways.
Bottom line is that your cars wheels/tires are more then capable of handling the weight!!

 

"New"/90k mi engine came in today! I hope to get the transmission bolted up and the whole thing secured to the kmember before I get too tired to work anymore