Quote Originally Posted by streetglideok View Post
There's a couple of us down here. One guy, his username begins with a Z, is a ford tech, I think at a dealership. I do domestic and Asian. I proudly defer euro stuff to guys like tmleader,lol. For labor, it calls for 10.7hrs in Mitchell for a complete engine swap, plus any other incidentals. For a long block, its 15.2hrs. Realistically, even a used engine is not much more than a long block. By the time the boneyard gets it to you, things are cut and broken, and you end up swapping 3/4 of the stuff from the old engine. I normally ask for long block time needless to say. I can't think of any special tools really needed on these, or at least nothing I wouldn't have. As tmleader said, euro brands have their own list of special tools you use just on them, to which I simply don't own.

My question to ginsue, what did the escape do, and what led John Senter to condemn the engine? If this is the shop off Academy and Austin Bluffs, is Rob Gillis still there? He would remind you of Santa Claus, lol.
The special tools I saw were the powertrain hoist (dont have, big dollar I think. Looks like a trans jack but designed just for this vehicle to pull the engine transmission) the attatchments for that hoist, some brackets that bolt to the engine to hoist the it once you drop it out of the vehicle and off the transmission and some small stuff you really don't need but which make it a whole lot easier. And my SnapOn man happier too since I would buy it...