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Pulled my engine today, Tough job.

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  • Start date Start date Mar 23, 2004
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Dind't go too bad, but was alot more work then I thought it would be. the tough part was bringing it out of the engine bay, I bent the front frame rail? that the hood latch conects to pulling it out. My dad had to get under it with a crow bar to push it back to get it over. Some were in the process we managed to take a chunk out of the bellhousing so looks like I'll be buying a new one. Im just glad I got it out now I can put it on the stand and clean up and repaint the engine bay and start working on the engine. I was hoping to have it running and everything but the body work done by this summer but with money and the work it still needs it will probally be more like next summer. I have some pics I'll have to upload. It wasn't too bad considering it was the first engine either of us pulled and I unhooked everything last week.
To detach the tranny from the engine do I just undo the bellhousing bolts?

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Jim
 
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I hope you don't have an auto transmission, because if you did it sounds like you might have forgot to remove the flexplate-to-torque converter nuts.
 
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I do have an auto tranny but I pulled them together. I think as the engine came up in the bay the tranny tilted back and hit the ground shattering the bell housing?

Jim
 

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well that doesn't make a lot of sense. the bellhousing is the big round thing that goes between the engine and tranny, covering the flexplate/fly wheel and the torque converter/ clutch and pressure plate.

do you mean the end of the tranny?
 
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No, the cast alluminom bellhousing, right around were the inspection plate bolts on at the very bottom front edge of the bellhousing broke.

Jim
 

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Don't Clevelands have C6s behind them? Their bellhousings are integral. The C4s are removable.
 
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