Tom1809 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Getting ready to pull my v8 out of the scrap disco today and got slightly stumped by a neigh bough who demons he used to work for rover back in the 90's. He said to split the auto box and the engine I have to unbolt the torque convertor, and that there is a plate under neath to do this, problem is he's buffered off, I can't find the info on the web and i have the plate on the bell housing off and the little circle one of underneath. Now the question is, I think the bolts I have to undo are the ones where you got big holes in the flywheel and are a 17mm socket. Do I remove the sump to get to these or is it the little ones on the flywheel? Or do I even need to undo any of them? Cheers tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zim Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Why seperate it ? Keep it all together to save on work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom1809 Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 Cause I see no easy way of getting the engine and gear box and transfer box out in one go, plus I want to replace the rear crank seal before I put it all in my 90. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Unbolt small aluminum cover plate on the front of the bell housing underneath. Have a look up inside and you will see a load of small-ish bolt heads near the starter ring -it's not these! Look deeper, and you will see 4 ~ 17mm headed bolts, you undo these with either a slim 3/8" ratchet and 17mm socket, or an open ended spanner, undo one, rotate the converter, undo another etc etc untill a;; 4 are clear, the torque converter should now rotate independantly of the flextplate/start ring, if so undo all the bell housing bolts and job done. If you get it wrong, it's no biggie, you just lose a couple of litres of ATF on the floor, and have to spend about 20 mins refitting the converter to the box -have as search if needed, this is covered by me and others elswhere on the forum. HTH *edit* Hop it doesn't look like this when you get it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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