Then engine is out! Thanks guys for your help. Every bolt on the bell housing was a bear. Tried to drop it off at a machine shop and the first one turned me away; said they don't work on aluminum blocks but they sent me to another shop in Raleigh a block from my office. I will keep you posted on the rebuild.
Engine Removal
- Thread starter wrldky
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I just pulled mine out a couple of weeks ago, and shipped the bare block out to D&D Fabrication in Michigan this morning. Went through similar challenge finding the plugs to pull the TC bolts off.. Even after we found the rubber plugs, we weren't convinced we had the right thing.
It was definitely much easier to pull the pan but I did not pull the strainer which I should have done because then we had to be careful with it when lowering the engine. I had already pulled the heads.
OK, I'm seriously doubting my mechanical ability after today.
Everything was pulled from the engine while still in the truck, only leaving the block with the rotating assembly in it. Pan and y-pipe also removed.
I then removed the four bolts attaching the flywheel to the TC, removed the engine mounts and lowered the engine, removed the six bolts attaching the block to the trans.
Nothing!!!!
Can't get the block to separate from the trans to save my life! I have a jack stand under the trans and went so far as to lift the assembly 6"-8" with the engine hoist and drop it several times, letting the trans drop onto the jack stand hoping it would dislodge the block. Never budged!
What m I missing? Shouldn't they come apart fairly easy at this point?
Greg
Everything was pulled from the engine while still in the truck, only leaving the block with the rotating assembly in it. Pan and y-pipe also removed.
I then removed the four bolts attaching the flywheel to the TC, removed the engine mounts and lowered the engine, removed the six bolts attaching the block to the trans.
Nothing!!!!
Can't get the block to separate from the trans to save my life! I have a jack stand under the trans and went so far as to lift the assembly 6"-8" with the engine hoist and drop it several times, letting the trans drop onto the jack stand hoping it would dislodge the block. Never budged!
What m I missing? Shouldn't they come apart fairly easy at this point?
Greg
Two at the very top, two near the bottom (below starter), two about 4" above those (between cast ribs on housing). I just went and looked and can't find the other two?
Any way you can snap a photo of the back of your block showing the eight holes?
Thanks everyone - I just went out again and found them! Not sure how I missed them the other twenty times(?).
Thanks again!
Greg
Thanks again!
Greg
Just remember that the technical definition of an engine hoist is the following:
A tool designed to test the tensile strength of whatever it is that you forgot to disconnect.
A tool designed to test the tensile strength of whatever it is that you forgot to disconnect.