Engine bench test

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Dodge73Dart

1973 Dodge Dart Sport restoration
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Automatic Transmission pulled out. Would like to be able start engine without installing transmission.
Any suggestions?
Also if I leave the neutral switch wire disconnected will I get ignition or do I need to jump a connector?
 
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You need a bellhousing to mount the starter, and a flywheel for it to turn, and yeah you'd have to bypass the NS switch.
 
A bellhousing with an old converter works well.
 
Use a flywheel with the proper balance.

Nonsense. You are not going to be winding the engine up very high or for very long. "Back in the day" (70's--80's) I ran a neutral balance 340 wheel behind a 360 for a couple of years in an old Landcruiser, and ran it pretty hard, too. Yeh. It shook. It was LONG before Al Gore invented the internet.

I don't even use a bell. Just a flywheel and the engine plate off the scattershield. But you could MAKE that if you can fabricate. Just use the automatic for a pattern. If you are afraid of breaking the starter round up a junkyard cheapie and gamble with that. So far, so good
 
Nonsense. You are not going to be winding the engine up very high or for very long. "Back in the day" (70's--80's) I ran a neutral balance 340 wheel behind a 360 for a couple of years in an old Landcruiser, and ran it pretty hard, too. Yeh. It shook. It was LONG before Al Gore invented the internet.

I don't even use a bell. Just a flywheel and the engine plate off the scattershield. But you could MAKE that if you can fabricate. Just use the automatic for a pattern. If you are afraid of breaking the starter round up a junkyard cheapie and gamble with that. So far, so good
I was disagreeing with using an unsupported old converter. As far as proper balance you can do as you wish. It makes no sense to me to balance an assembly $$$ and then run the motor with the wrong setup.
 
Get a fuckin flywheel and bell, keyyyrist.. it's not do or die trying people, holy ****! Lol

Make or buy a stand, it's easy and cheap.
 
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