Oh what a happy day today is! After several days of disassembling the engine components on the family mini-van, I was able to remove the engine block today! Took some photos to post later, perhaps on Facebook. Now it is time to remove some of the other parts to get it ready for the new engine block. I was really thankful that we didn't have to drop the van from off of the ramps to hoist the engine out.
It will be a decent amount of work to get the new block in and replace all of the gaskets that got destroyed from removing all of the exterior components. Also, there was that one bolt that sheared that I will have to find a replacement for...
