No Lift 360 Swap Tips/Suggestions

If you leave the 904 in the car, jack the car up and make it safe to get under. Disconnect the battery first, then get under the car and take the starter out. Take the dust cover off the lower front of the 904 and keep it together with the bolts that hold it....actually, do that with everything instead of just tossing the bolts in a bucket. Take the closest flex plate to converter bolt out and rotate the motor with a socket on the harmonic balancer bolt, then take the other 3 converter to flex plate bolts out as you come to them. When you get all 4 of those little bolts out, save them with the dust cover and its bolts. Push the torque converter towards the back of the car as far as it will go...maybe half to 3/4 of an inch. Then take everything else loose under the car in the same fashion. The two bottom bellhousing bolts go thru the bottom of the bellhousing flange on the motor, into the transmission bellhousing. You will need to remove the oil filter to get the passenger side bottom bolt out. The rest of the bellhousing bolts go thru the bellhousing into the flange on the motor. Get everything done underneath before you move up top. You can even loosen the thru bolt on the motor mounts to where they will lift out of the saddles on the K frame when you start the lift out. Before you start the job, find some rubber plugs to plug off the gas line coming from the tank (you can stick a bolt in that), the transmission lines at the radiator(you will need 4 plugs there) and something to catch your antifreeze when you drain the radiator before you take it out. If your lower radiator hose has a coiled up spring in it....save it and put it back in the new hose when you go back together with it. That helps keep the water pump from sucking the hose flat when it is pulling water from the radiator. You might as well pull the hood off since this is your first time. Get help with that so you don't bust the windshield! Catch the hook on the hoist as close to the intake as you can (carb off) and the motor will easily clear without removing the oil pan. Use a chain corner to corner, bolted to the bolt holes in the head, bolts in deep but not bottomed completely out....and catch it close as I mentioned above. Put the hoist hook right over the center of the intake and you won't need a leveler. Support the trans and don't let the converter fall out. You can bolt a little box end wrench to the bottom of the bellhousing to hold the converter. You'll figure out how. :) Just take your time, be safe...and you will figure most of it out as you go.

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