Someone I know did a replacement diesel engine on a 300C. Fucking awful job, and he screwed it up, too. He absolutely refused to even contemplate pulling it out from underneath - why? No idea, but he's no technician, trust me. It came out minus the trans, and that proved to be a massive error. Went to court in the end, as he'd put in a dud engine. I have NO IDEA why he did that - it was an engine he owned out of a condemned Grand Cherokee, so did he think they wouldn't notice it was actually worse than the one they'd accidentally filled with gas instead of diesel? It barely ran, leaked oil and the turbo was kaput. Nasty old Merc diesels. Avoid... Dumb as dirt, but he still has their $10K, approx., and they have no car. Court ruled against him, but he just put the business into his son's name. He's NEVER going to pay them - he's said it in those words. Use someone who knows what they're doing. Looks like you have a fair idea... Nice outcome.

Get your audio sorted, my friend. I'll sub for now, but I can barely hear you.

some things are not meant to do in the driveway lol. Off to the shop it goes.

Thanks for the video

theres actually 3 upper bolts on the left side one in the upper l h corner corner

Not all heros wear capes, was just wondering how i was going to get that out

When reinstalling, there’s a roller cup that goes on the pump’s spring, that rides on the shaft that drives the pump. Is there a correct orientation for the roller cup wrt the shaft?

Seems time consuming. I can get to mine by removing just the head unit

I pulled it out the top. Yes it’s a pain the BEHIND but I did it

“Quick way to remove hemi manifolds” “Lift engine off the motor mounts” That’s not quick

That recirc door is such a bad design :/ the actuators seem to lose position, keep spinning until they break the door inside the air duct. I really hope I can replace that pulling the dash this way, it seems a lot easier 🤞

Where’s your shop located I need a mechanic lol! Seriously

With this removal of the dash. Did you notice if it would be possible to remove the evaporator coil with out removing the steering wheel?

I did the passenger side a month ago (very easy) and completed the driver side yesterday (much more labor intensive). I will say this, it can be done without removing the dipstick, or unbolting the exhaust catch pipes. Make sure the dipstick tube goes on the other side of the ac lines. It just takes some wiggling and good positioning of the dipstick tube. Also make sure to turn the steering wheel in a way so the screw on the steering shaft is straight pointing (not facing to the engine or toward you). It probably only gives you a few extra centimeters or so but it was enough to wiggle the manifold downward between the exhaust catch and the side of the wheel well. Once you have unbolted the manifold raise the manifold left side up while also bringing the right side down and simultaneously maneuvering the dipstick tube (there is enough play to do it). Once you can get the left side high enough and right side down, it should just come right out the bottom by your right foot. When putting the new one back in, I figured you’d need as much room as possible so i slid the gasket in after wiggling the new manifold in. I had difficult getting the new one slid in the same way I got the old one out, so I actually came in through the opposite way (front of truck between ac lines and dipstick connector. Probably ill advised but I was able to do it. Scraped up the ac lines a little but it worked. Sorry if I didn’t use proper terminology for everything but I’m just a KZbin problem solver and hope this helps someone else out. I just wanted to give some positive feedback so this could be attempted without extra steps. Again the game changer for me was positioning the steering wheel in a way so that screw wasn’t catching the dipstick. I couldn’t do it until I rotated the wheel. My truck is a 2017 ram.

What did u use to remove the bolts

Ty for taking the time to show us. Blessings from above

Dude all you had to do was pull the cowl! Its made to come out the top

You have a Venmo?, I got 10$ for you having by far the easiest method in doing this. Can’t thank you enough, every other way is an absolute disaster, why this isn’t the standard method is beyond me

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Just completed this job and couldn't get the manifold out! While some videos said to squeeze this out the top somehow, which I was unable to contort this out at all. Your advice to take the catalytic converter Y down and drop the exhaust off the rubber hangers worked like a charm! Thanks for the great advice!

Its you vehicle shifting sensor I think.I had that same problem

Ah 8th grade, good times. We actually did a pretty awesome job on this. I'm impressed. Thanks for puttin' it on T-Rom.