Do you have to drain the oil...

...to dismantle the engine?

I need my TDi lump out of my front garden ASAP so I want to take it apart bit by bit and litter it around my house. Partly to get it out of the front garden and partly to learn more about engines.

Can I just take the head off without draining the oil? The sump plug isn't very accessible atm...

 

You can take the head off, but don't tip it over or it will leak oil everywhere.


Aren't TDI lumps worth money... unless they're knackered?

 

Thanks.

If I stripped it down to the block and sump, do you think I would be able to carry it without making a mess?

 

draining it wont take 5mins tho!

 

Yeah but I can't get to the plug! It's leant against a wall on a trolley at about a 45 degree angle! If I try it's just going to fall on its ****.

 

If you strip all the ancilleries off you should be able to carry the block and sump for a short distance. Although I really wouldn't advise taking it indoors without draining it, even when drained it will still leak oil as you never get it all out. One turn of the crank and you'll have oil on your kitchen floor.

 

Nah, I'd probably drain it outside once I've stripped it down and can get to the plug easier.

 

You'll have a job to crack open the head bolts if it not secured to something large, heavy and immovable - say like a car! You'll need at the very least an air ratchet to do this to an engine off the car. That's my experience of two engines anyway.

It'll p!ss all everywhere too.

 

Maybe you need to get someone to help?

 

Go get yourself a Tesco trolley, cut a small hole in the bottom to access the sump plug, find some mates and lift it in. Then you can move it anywhere you want aswell.

 

what happens when you try and use an old work top as a ramp... oh get one of these ha


the ramp was going to here, i know very silly!!!, still managed with on my own to get it in ha

 

x2


Also, you can easily drain the oil from an engine out the car, by raising the engine onto bricks. You should be able to lever one end at a time onto bricks, and could use an axle stand on the exhaust manifold or something. If I can do a VR6, then you can do a 4 cylinder.

 

You recon? Last time to had to crack the head bolts on my 16V I had a breaker bar and a long piece of pipe on the end as well as giving it some welly. I thought my car was going to move just before they loosened. The lump was really moving in the bay too. There was no way you could have done this with the engine out of the car - unless I weighed 34 stone and wore lead boots. They'll zip off easy as cake with an air ratchet though - wish i had a garage with tools [:^(]

 

^^^^ Dude that's worrying for 2 reasons;

A Your in a dress
B Your is a dress and everybody else appears to be dressed normally

 

Hahaha quality pictures there

I managed to whip the headbolts off my abf in the middle of the back garden on my own

 

Classic!!! You got black insulation tape over your nipples as well?

 

You were obviously hoping for a sneeky peak then to have noticed that