Crankshaft Pulley Problem(s)!

[RallyEclipse98]

I am trying to get off my crankshaft pulley for timing/water pump/head gasket change and I'm confused. It appears that when I do finally get the pulley off the engine, it will slam into the body of the car. I cannot just yank the thing out through the wheel well, it looks like it will hit the inside of the engine bay.

There is about 2 inches between the pulley and the body. Is this okay or do I have to drop the engine more? Right now the front motor mount is loose and the passenger motor mount is completely off. I tried pushing down on the motor and it won't hunker down enough.

I read on 2gnt that I would have to take out a body mount or something?

Any help would be appreciated. This seemed a lot easier in the write-ups.

[RallyEclipse98]

On 2gnt.com someone said I have to remove the front crossmember. It seems like that would be the only way to lower the engine enough.

[TylerLorenz]

I never ran into this issue before. Have any way to send us pictures?

[RallyEclipse98]

Problem solved!

Earlier in the project I took out the front motor mount bolt and later put it back in (in an attempt to jack the engine up higher). I accidentally put the bolt through one of the holes in the bushing so therefore the engine mount was holding up the engine above the intended bolt hole. The engine couldn't sit low enough. So I just took the bolt out completely and got the engine to sit on the front crossmember. Everything works well now.

[BISHILVR]

Thanks for updating your thread, all too often threads go on forever into cyberspace without resolve and that in turn causes future users to create new threads about the same problems.