Ready to pull the old engine

Yesterday I spent about 4 hours finishing the preparation for removing the old engine.  This included disconnecting additional hoses, plugs, and so forth, and pulling out the old engine control wiring harness.  I have only to uncouple the CV joints:

Passenger-side CV joint

which shouldn't be too hard, since the eight bolts holding each one are coated with a thin layer of grease that keeps them from rusting - unlike almost every other bolt I had to work with so far.  I may need a helper to set and release the parking brake, since the bolts are easy to reach when they're at the top of the joint, which means I can turn the shaft, set the brake, loosen the bolt on the top, then release the brake and repeat.

After the joints are free, I'll do a final check for attached things, then set the jack (front of transmission) and the engine hoist (rear of engine), and release the mounts.  Then, it's a two-person operation to ease the two down to the floor, and drag 'em out.

Here's the pile of things removed.  The ganglia-like cable at the left is the engine-control system harness.  There are some parts in this pile (the heat shields) that will be reused, but the rest will either get eBay'd or trashed. There are still a lot of hoses and wires attached to the engine, which will come out with it and not get re-used, either (see last photo).

I had enough time yesterday to drop the engine, but I was home alone until about 1:00, when I left to donate blood.  I didn't want to get into heavy wrenching when I got back, so I decided to wait until today to finish.  Today it's raining and cold, which pretty much leaves indoor projects only on the to-do list.

Much remains attached to the engine itself