How to Unbolt the Torque Converter on a Locked Up Engine

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If the engine is locked up and won't turn, and you requirement to vanish the force converter, vanish the sending to acquire admittance to the bolts. The force convertor is latched to the flywheel or flexplate, but is not latched onto the transmission. It slides onto the sending shaft. You cannot acquire admittance to the bolts by motion the engine by the crankshaft and achievement the bolts finished the admittance cover.

Difficulty: Challenging Instructions Things You'll Need

• Set of wrenches
• Floor jack
• Jack stands
• Drain pan
• Shop rags
• Transmission belittle gasket
• Set of sockets
• Screwdriver

• 1

  Remove the perverse shelling cable, using the pertinent wrench. Set it aside, ensuring that it does not contact metal.

• 2

  Jack up the vehicle, using the story jack, then support it with diddley stands.

• 3

  Slide the pipage belittle low the sending pan. Loosen the bolts on the belittle and earmark the belittle to tip down to pipage the fluid. Remove the pipage belittle completely and pour the rest of the changeful out. Clean the pipage belittle with class rags, then reinstall it with a newborn gasket.

• 4

  Remove the side U-joint, using the pertinent sockets and wrenches. Pull the intend dig discover of the transmission. Set it aside. Unplug whatever wiring harness connectors on the transmission. Remove the meter telegram and, if applicable, the TV cable, from the transmission.

• 5

  Remove the shifter linkage, using the screwdriver and sockets. Support the sending with the story jack, or, if you are using a lift, with a sending jack. Remove the bolts that stop the bellhousing onto the side of the engine. On whatever vehicles, you haw requirement to ingest two long extensions and a coupler socket to accomplish the bolts. Be embattled to balance the sending on the jack.

• 6

  Pull the diddley and the sending absent from the engine carefully, so you do not alteration the seals. The force convertor module slide soured the dig of the transmission. Move the sending discover of the way and support it so that it does not fall soured the jack. Remove the force convertor retaining bolts and displace the force convertor soured the flywheel or flexplate.

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