We had an engine-pulling party last weekend. I invited Mark and Harold to come over at 11am. Before they got there I decided to drain the gas tank. I got underneath with a drain pan and pulled the rubber hose off of the steel tubing and pointed it at the drain pan. I had to sit there and hold it to keep it from flopping around shooting gas all over the place. It was about a foot down to the drain pan so there was this constant splash cloud all over me. Oh and sometimes the hose would pop out of my grip and spray something (usually me). &^%*%#($^(^%%^ job. Like milking a hydrocarbon cow. I put the gas into my Sequoia, which always seems to need some.
The boys showed up and we got to work. About an hour later we had the engine out. Mark and Harold said "hey, we were planning to spend the whole day here!" so I said "OK, now take out the gas tank." We got around to removing that, as well as the seats. Next, beer and hamburgers.
The next day (President's Day, we had the day off) the guy who bought the engine came over and took everything that came out - engine, gas tank, starter, brakes, etc. Over the next few days I attacked the carpets, the headlliner, and the upholstery. Saturday I went to Sears to look at batteries. Hold on, you may think, how can you be so dumb, car batteries are not suitable for electric cars. Well a post on EVDL a while back revealed that the Sears PM-2 marine battery is a re-label of the EVer-popular Enersys Odyssey PC1500MST Absorbed Glass Mat battery, so there. I also took the steering wheel off, and then the dashboard. I decided to re-wire the whole thing - ambitious I know, but what the heck. Once you cut a harness, there's no going back.
Yesterday I removed the remaining wire harnesses,, the headlights, and the turn signals. Once I have the whole thing stripped down, I plan to design and build the battery boxes and lay out the rest of the components.
