08 V6 removal

[SubaruTech84]

Hey everyone. I am new to the Honda world. I am a Subaru Master Tech. I am looking at buying an 08 Accord Coupe AT with a 3.5L. It has a blown engine. I am doing some research before going ahead and doing it. ALLDATA procedure shows to drop the engine/trans as an assembly out the bottom of the car. I don't want to go through all that trouble if I don't have to. So is there anyone out there that has pulled the motor out the top of the car??? Any help is appreciated!

[CtheW0rld]

i have no idea, but welcome to the forum.

[fastball]

It is probably, actually EASIER to drop the engine out of the bottom since it's assembled in sub sections and put through the bottom.

You probably could take it out through the top but I imagine it being much more difficult to do. If you look under the car it's rather easy to see how the front end sub frame with the entire front suspension, engine, and drivetrain is all together and would be easily removed as one sub assembly.

[Rattmann]

yes you can but it is harder.. not enough spacing to work around.

The transmission and engine cannot be easily taken apart like in Subaru and not having to open suspension and CVs.

I had a new engine in my 08 accord from honda, and only proper way to do it correctly is the bottom side.

[TopSniper69]

Your saying you don't wanna go out the bottom why? I guess you have a cherry picker and just wanna use that instead of muscling the motor out the bottom? When doing Hondas I put a piece of ply wood under the engine and attach straps to the ply wood. Use the cherry picker to hold the engine while removing all the mounts, slowly lower the engine onto the plywood. Now detach the cherry picker and attach it to the car itself via the engine mounts. Now lift the car with the cherry picker and slide the engine out from under the car via the straps attached to the ply wood. Last lower the car, done deal. Obviously there's alot in between all that but if you've swapped engines before then you already know this. Good luck.

[SubaruTech84]

My problem is that the car is for sale almost 2 hours away. I have never looked under the hood of a 08+ Accord 3.5L. I've pulled plenty of drivetrains from the bottom. I worked for Nissan and that is the same way we did them all there. I didn't want to go out the bottom because without a lift it is much more difficult to drop stuff out the bottom usually.

So does this car have a full front cradle for a subframe? Or does it have just a small subrame running front to rear from the core support to the unibody? Do you drop the subframe out before lowering the engine to the ground?

[hondaracer4vtec]

hey, yes you drop the sub frame before removing the engine out. from the bottom is alot better. you can also remove the front out (about two ish hours of labor since your experienced) remove the bottom frames and wheel it out from there.

[Edaccord08]

It has a full subframe (boxed which holds engine, transmission, axle support and steering rack ).
the mounts (4+1) are located like this (front/back on the subframe, pass/driver frame and one small on driver subframe for trans . So 3 on sub and 2 on unibody frame-rail .

[spatel133]

like everyone has already said before, the best way tio drop it is from the lower section. fallowing alldata on this one is the best way to go.