1jz won't move the last inch into the engine mounts

[Arrest_me_red]

alright, my engine is 98% of the way in and now im stuck, the rear turbo intake is hitting the ac lines, and the mounts are barely out, sometimes i can get one started, but then it falls out after i try to put the other side in, am i missing something?

 

[S.A. supra]

You have to beat back the fire wall so that the rear turbo fits.

Edit:
Yeah sorry I thought you had 2jzgte. Like hvyman said jack up the tranny. I jacked up my rear end up and also had a engine level. When I dropped it in the first time I pretty much dropped in. The second time I struggled. Just like you said I could get one mount in but not the other. took a lot of wiggling and a extra hand but it eventuality dropped in.

What year is your car?

 

[hvyman]

You have to jack the tranny in place and then it will slide in.

 

[Arrest_me_red]

That is with the tranny jacked all the way up :/ The last 3 hours i've spent on it, it hasn't moved past that point.

its a 1991, came as a manual turbo, putting in a manual 1jz from a jza70, pretty much the simplest swap you can do, so far i've learned that nothing can be easy with this car :/

The engine is level, i could probably install the shifter right now, i wish i could jack it up higher, so that it angled downward, maybe i can remove the trans mounts and try that.

 

[Poodles]

Do you have the right sump? Did you remove the brace on the subframe? (you remove it to remove/install the engine and then put it back)

 

[mattsplat72]

Take the rear intake pipe off. Thats what I did and it dropped right in.

 

[mkiiichip]

If you have the trans mount installed, the tranny is not jacked up all the way.

Remove the mount and jack it up farther, its tight but itll fit.

 

[hvyman]

If you have abs removing the rear charge pipe would not work. Bolts hit the brake lines.

Are the mounts on backwards?

 

[Arrest_me_red]

the brace is removed, it should be the right pan because it was out of a supra, the car does have abs, if i remove that pipe im afraid i won't be able to get it back on, i'll try removing the trans mount bracket, so that i can lift the trans even higher, hopefully that will move the mounts back and the charge pipes forward

---------- Post added at 10:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:26 PM ----------

IT WORKED! removing the transmission mount and jacking it up extra high worked, i also had to use a screw driver to bend the mount into place but its all good now! that was bugging the shit out of me all day at work! THANKS VERY MUCH GUYS!

 

[te72]

Are the mounts on backwards?

This was my thought, but I'm late to the party. Congrats on getting it in place!