Sierra work complete

Nick and I took the day off work today to get the Sierra finished off, so we have made excellent progress today.

We started the day by getting hold of an engine crane:

Then we got cracking on the Sierra. We removed all the pipes, wires etc connecting the engine and gearbox to the car bofore lifting the whole assembly out with the crane. The engine came out fairly easily with the crane:

Once the engine was out, we took the gearbox off, which we plan to use, before dumping the engine back inside the car on the passenger seat, as looking around it doesn't seem like engines sell for anything.

Then it was just the final few parts from the front wheels and brakes to take off and put with the prop shaft and we had finished taking all the parts off the Sierra! Woot!

After much tidying up, labelling of parts and sorting everything out, we had all the parts to be scrapped in the Sierra and everything we wanted to keep organised. The car looked a little sad with no wheels and all the parts dumped inside:

A quick call to a local scrap merchant and they came down with a small truck with crane on it to plonk our dead Sierra on the back of it. It was all over surprisingly quickly, we had taken all the parts we needed from the Sierra in only 2 full days work on the car. The next task is taking the engine out of the Saab, but that's not going to be started for over a week yet...