{"id":758,"date":"2013-03-24T13:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T20:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/?p=758"},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:55:46","slug":"get-in-your-home-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"GET IN YOUR HOME <strike>BALL<\/strike> ENGINE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before winter we removed the engine out of my friend Robbs 1973 Winnebago.\u00a0 Over the winter he rebuilt the engine and transmission in his heated garage.\u00a0 We are now installing the newly rebuilt engine to get ready for the May long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>When removing the engine we destroyed the engine hoist, the problem comes from the graveled alley.\u00a0 Because of the motor-home height we cant get it in the garage.\u00a0 This means we have to pull the engine in the alley.\u00a0 The engine hoist rolls easy enough without the engine and transmission but after it barely rolls at all.\u00a0 It took hours to tug it up to the garage by hand.<\/p>\n<p>When it came time to put the engine back in we switched strategies.\u00a0 This time we put a quad in behind the motor-home with the winch cable passed up under the chassis to the front.\u00a0 This was then hooked into the engine hoist.\u00a0 This allowed us to tug the engine in, problem is it lacked finesses as the engine and trans weighed more then the quad.\u00a0 Because of this we couldn't just run the winch, we had to back the quad up.\u00a0 None the less we finally got the engine mounts to line up and exhaust attached.\u00a0 End result is a 1973 Winnebago with\u00a0 new found reliability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-759\" alt=\"IMG_1653\" src=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1653-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1653-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1653-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1653-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-760\" alt=\"IMG_1654\" src=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1654-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1654-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1654-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1654-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before winter we removed the engine out of my friend Robbs 1973 Winnebago.\u00a0 Over the winter he rebuilt the engine and transmission in his heated garage.\u00a0 We are now installing the newly rebuilt engine to get ready for the May long weekend. When removing the engine we destroyed the engine hoist, the problem comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}