DAY 4: Come on, let's get started

Eli is a bit anxious to get the engine out.  He knows we can't just pop it out with a screw driver, but at the same time he's not real excited about persuading trim to come off without destroying it.  Finesse isn't really his game.  To be fair, I'm not great at it either.  Nonetheless, we started taking trim off.  I guess we're sort of working front to back.

Before Day 4

Removing the bumper is easy, but we did break 3 bolts.  It gave us a gentle reminder of the age of the vehicle.  Screws holding the large silver trim on are covered by slivers of silver trim.  We found out that there are little bolts with nuts on the back.  You can access them from inside the grill/fenders.  Once you twist them the trim piece pops off (and it doesn't even mangle it!) giving you access to the large silver trim's screws.  Once you take all that out of the way, the grill is trivial to remove.  Next was the radiator and then we dropped the front fender on the ground.

After Day 4

This was only an hour or two of messing around.  We plan to get an air compressor and some air tools to help us going forward.  We quit relatively early to go watch the Blues destroy the Dallas Stars in game 7.

Today cost: nothing

Total project cost: $2,048.31