Well, my E39 is up to date on all its maintenance, and I've been spending more money on the Merc than I can count, so whats the next logical step? Another project!!! There is a twist though, I am getting paid fake money called the US dollar to work on this one instead of paying it!
Backstory: A friend of mine and his dad had been working on this van of theirs for about 3 years. They took it off the road to retire the tired old v8 and replace it with an LY6 which is a gen 4 6.0 LS and a 6l80e. The engine and trans are *mostly* mounted, and they have lots of good parts, but it still needs lots of work. He messaged me a few weeks ago and asked me if I wanted to buy the engine and trans, they had decided to part it out and haul it off because it just wasn't getting done. I then counter offered with the idea of letting me finishing it since I have a medium amount of experience from the Wreck Racing E28, youngboomers K5 blazer, and a few family cars that had them.
The first step was getting it over to my place. That turned out to be a feat in and of itself. The van was parked in their backyard, through a tiny gate. Once I finally got the trailer in place, the next problem presented itself. The trailer tilted towards the truck a good bit and the van had zero brakes. So first I had to winch the van up onto the trailer, and then once the fron wheels got on to the deck of the trailer, we attatched the snatch block to a tree and then brought the winch cable back to the van. I was then able to slowly release the winch to lower the van the rest of the way on the trailer.
Easy. This 6.7 P O W E R S T R O K E pulled really damn good. The ride home was effortlessly and it was time to unload.
The thought didnt really cross my mind until it was sitting in my driveway, but holy hell this thing was tall, it dwarfed the Escalade. I got really scared about it fitting in the garage.
Some quick guestimates, I figured the garage door was 8 ft tall and the van was damn near 8 ft too. So I figured I would give it a shot. If it didn't fit, I would air the tires down. If that didnt work, pull the front springs. But alas,
Safe and sound, ready to be torn in to. Ill update when I start diving in to it. I need to come up with a task list. I have a feeling it will be longer than I originally thought...