Today Sai12 and I went out and bought a battery and rented the engine hoist before she had to go to work.  First Amanda and I scraped and sanded the hood to begin working on removing its battle scars and rust spots.  After she had to leave I had just enough time before the sun went down to prime the hood.  After that I spent a good 3 hours trying to get the engine out myself before my buddy Chase made it over aroun 11pm, laying down a first coat of green on the hood some time around 9:30.  Once he showed up we continued trying to get the engine and transmission out of the car but we were having some hardcore clearance issues.  We would get it started, have a good chunk of it out and something (usually the transfer case and center diff) would get hung up on something.  Also in the process of removing a motor mount I sheered yet another socket wrench, this one belonging to one of my roommates. We were then left for the rest of the night with some crescent wrenches, adjustable wrenches, and a 2 foot breaker bar with some sockets.  Eventually we gave up trying to pull it out and decided to drop it down and pull it out since it's a junk motor anyway.  After fighting with the rubber exhaust hangers for a good 20 minutes I took my trusty breaker bar and started working on the subframe.  Mind you by this point it is already 2am.

Needless to say I was defeated by the subframe simply due to my lack of a ratchet.  I had Amanda pick one up for me on her way home from work but by the time she got here there were some pretty ominous lighting strikes off in the distance and heading in this direction and it was already starting to rain.  We opted to just pack everything up, bagged all essential wiring and hoses so they don't get wet hopefully, covered the engine and called it a night. Tomorrow's forcast calls for severe thunderstorms all day and night so I'm just going to take the engine hoist back, bum a ride from Amanda again to go to work and just rent it on the next clear day.