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Good morning! Busy in here last night. I see Miss Rani is progressing on the wagon and Memike should be moving forward on Victoria this week. :coffee2: :glasses7:
 
Morning Keith and Mike!

We all slept in today. Only our oldest daughter was going to school. I woke up at 7:55 just in time to rush downstairs and give her a hug on her way out.

The rest of the pack - wife included - slouched down the stairs almost two hours later. Much needed recouperation for the little one.
 
Question for you all. How difficult is it to lower the engine out of an early A WITHOUT removing the transmission at the same time?
 
360DartGT66 said:
Question for you all. How difficult is it to lower the engine out of an early A WITHOUT removing the transmission at the same time?
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Hmm, sounds unneccesarily complicated. I guess you would get it out. The beauty of the lower install to me is that its so smooth, straight up. Just a handfull of bolts to align. No juggling, sliding, tilting... Just down out, up in. Maybe its just too early for my brain to compute.

Mine is 75. Dont think there is any big diff for early vs later on engine r&r
 
The thing is I want to get the engine out but I also need to measure up the drive shaft and the slip yoke is in the mail for probably almost another week.

I would pull the trans out too once the yoke gets here and then put it back in as a package.

I guess I would need to be able to slide the engine forward a little bit before lifting the chassis up. But all I would need to do is to remove the bell housing bolts and the bolts that hold the flex plate to the flywheel, right?

I've never done this. At all.
 
I really should get my old bolt and nut thread that I had long time ago going again.

I would post a mopar bolt and people would say where on the car it goes.

Right now I am doing a bolt audit on a duster....every bolt is inspected to ensure each head marking and exact length is correct and on the car in the correct place.

I corrected the upper control arm cam bolts as first thing.....someone had them going inwards so the nuts were inside when the bolts are supposed to go the other direction so the nuts are on outsides and easier to get to. when you remove or install them you only put a 3/4 wrench on the bolt to keep it from turning so it makes sense the nuts go to the outsides.
 
360DartGT66 said:
The thing is I want to get the engine out but I also need to measure up the drive shaft and the slip yoke is in the mail for probably almost another week.

I would pull the trans out too once the yoke gets here and then put it back in as a package.

I guess I would need to be able to slide the engine forward a little bit before lifting the chassis up. But all I would need to do is to remove the bell housing bolts and the bolts that hold the flex plate to the flywheel, right?

I've never done this. At all.
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someone say bellhousing bolts .....I have a thread where I documented every bolt on a 440 and I am fixin to make a thread to identify every single bolt on the whole car
 

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360DartGT66 said:
The thing is I want to get the engine out but I also need to measure up the drive shaft and the slip yoke is in the mail for probably almost another week.

I would pull the trans out too once the yoke gets here and then put it back in as a package.

I guess I would need to be able to slide the engine forward a little bit before lifting the chassis up. But all I would need to do is to remove the bell housing bolts and the bolts that hold the flex plate to the flywheel, right?

I've never done this. At all.
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are you working with a manual transmission or automatic here??

flex plate and flywheel in the same sentence has me a bit confused :)
 
mechanical engineers have all the fun...I am in a mechanical engineer's group even though I am not one myself........( I am a wannabe mechanical engineer)

but I saw this chart.

I think I have seen all but two of these on our old cars :)

I would like to design my own bolt type .....the Rani head bolt and it would have properties never seen in a fastener before......( hey I can dream, right)
 

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I was reading a build thread the other day I saw someone use a rivet nut to install a seat belt set up of some sort.

that was a new one on me because I hadn't really explored a rivet nut before but I can see one being useful if ever changing a thick bumper 74+ car to the earlier style bumper brackets
 

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Ben Drinkin said:
Looks like you've been a busy beaver overnight. .
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night time is the best time to work ....no distractions and no TV noise. My parents watch TV and I have no idea why they waste so much precious life watching garbage. ...oh well it's their time I guess.

It is absolutely quiet at night in the shop ....except I had break up a cat fight a little bit ago. :???:
 
Rainy Day Auto said:
night time is the best time to work ....no distractions and no TV noise. My parents watch TV and I have no idea why they waste so much precious life watching garbage. ...oh well it's their time I guess.

It is absolutely quiet at night in the shop ....except I had break up a cat fight a little bit ago. :???:
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My neighbors get a little pissed when when i fire up the noise making tools late at night. I usually have to shut it down by 11. Does make mornings a lot easier tho..
 
Happy St. Patrick's Day BTW

I guess today is the day it would be ok to put a beat down on a snake....if any were around.

I could see celebrating by bashing some creepy reptile skull in.
 
Rainy Day Auto said:
Happy St. Patrick's Day BTW

I guess today is the day it would be ok to put a beat down on a snake....if any were around.

I could see celebrating by bashing some creepy reptile skull in.
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Not a snake fan i see! I dont like the damn things either, except that they do eat the mouses.. i like mice even less than snakes..
 

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