How easy is it to remove sv6 2010 llt engine without gearbox coming out?

[Billy-Roy Trathen]

Just wondering how easy it is to remove the engine from my 2010 sv6 llt without taking the gearbox out with it as i really dont want to have to do that if it can be done any easy ways or just hard? Doesnt look to be much room to undo the top bellhousing bolts easy while still in the car.

 

[Fu Manchu]

Considering you can unbolt, then remove the entire front from VE and VF and walk the assembly out the front of the car, it wouldn't be that much harder to take the gearbox out as well.

 

[Trevor loves holden.]

You would need a car hoist to do that. Then you can drop the k frame that means removing strut mounts and so on, if its your first time get a service manual, or leave it to the mechanics.

 

[Fu Manchu]

Remove the struts and walk it out.

 

[_R_J_K_]

It is far easier to take the gearbox out with the engine. Instead of dealing with the precarious bellhousing bolts with heaps of extensions and reduced leverage under the car, then actually seperating and supporting the gearbox when you remove the engine from the car, to get them both out all you have to do is undo the tailshaft and move the exhaust clear and take them out as one. Not to mention, even if you did take the engine out of the car without the gearbox you still have to reattach it when the engine goes back in, essentially it's a fair bit of double handling for no effort saved.