Need help pulling my 273

nothingbutdarts said

No! You have to beat out the old plugs, clean up the bores and beat in new plugs. There are two 1 1/2" or so plugs behind the flex plate and one plug in the back of each head about 3/4". I would plan on lifting it all the way out. My .02

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You definitely want to separate the engine from the tranny at some point. Look what I found on mine! I could have replaced the side freeze plugs, only to be doing it all over again to replace the rears. The pics you see are the rears, original since 1964!