The crackhead way...aka hard as hell and overtorques a lug nut. Not recommended.
Quote Originally Posted by L36pro View Post
the easiest way to pry the engine forward is to get a tire iron on the passenger wheel, put the car in park, crank the lug tight until the whole car rolls forward, and have a friend put the parking brake on for you.
and as far as brackets go, its probably easier to get the plugs out of the rear bank, than to try and get the bolts off the bracket.
The next hardest way.
Quote Originally Posted by scottydoggs View Post
or simply undo the dog bones and push the car forward while its in park standing at the driver side door and then hit the e brake, why bust a lug nut?
Easiest of the hard ways.
Quote Originally Posted by starscream5000 View Post
Or you can unhook the dog bones and take a ratchet strap to the bracket on the alternator and then to the passenger side cross brace. You don't have to tighten it up a lot, just a little, the engine will move forward quit a bit just like this.
To further explain the second bolt thing to make sense. See where your passengerside dog bone bracket meets the coil pack bracket (just left of the oil fill cap). There is a second hole further back on that bracket from the two holes that the bolt is through. If you remove the bolts from that position on both dogbone brackets, then pull the motor slightly forward (you can use your hand on the SC snout) then put the passenger side bolt back in...but in the single hole of the bracket that is further back. If this doesn't make sense, I can get some pics/vid tonight for you.

If you want to easily rock the motor forward for backward, undo those bolts at the dogbones and on the driverside dogbone mount on the engine. Follow the mount to the LIM. If you lay a long screwdriver or prybar on that and hook the edge of the lim.. it's cake.