engine and tranny install
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08/15/11 02:06 AM
08/15/11 02:06 AM
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Drip
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I am about to install a 727 and 440 in my 69 B body. what is the easiest whay to do it. I will not be able to bring it from the bottom on the K member.
Do i drop in the engine from the top then bolt up the tranny from under the car, or do i put the engine and tranny together outside the car and drop them as a unit from the top.
thanks
Last edited by Drip; 08/15/11 02:08 AM.
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Re: engine and tranny install
[Re: Challenger 1]
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08/15/11 09:40 AM
08/15/11 09:40 AM
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Bolt them together before putting them in the car, it's way easier and faster. It's stupid to put them in separately.
Absolutely. Trying to line up and install the tranny with the engine is a P.I.T.A under the car.
Why the heck do you want to do two installations when you can do one. And yes, remove the radiator, it will slip in with a little help from your friends.
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Re: engine and tranny install
[Re: Drip]
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08/15/11 12:02 PM
08/15/11 12:02 PM
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both together & using the load leveler was the best ch I ever did w that (bolt the 2 rear chains to not the rear set of manifold bolts but the next pair forward) & I highly recommend removing the st box/column/center steering link. You need all the room you can muster so as to not nick/damage anything & jack the front end up pretty high and the rear less so/at least 1 helper/alot of weight on the cherry picker
live every 24 hour block of time like it's your last day on earth
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Re: engine and tranny install
[Re: Kern Dog]
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08/15/11 12:48 PM
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?????? I prefer to install them together.
Yeah ... you and the other couple of here have probably done-this dozens of times.
This guy here appears to be a first-timer. ANOTHER consideration is the weight of the E&T combo ... having to raise it up much higher ... and lots of the cheapO cranes being tippy. And AGAIN .. him being a newbie.
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Re: engine and tranny install
[Re: dOc !]
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08/15/11 06:34 PM
08/15/11 06:34 PM
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This guy here appears to be a first-timer... lots of the cheapO cranes being tippy.... And AGAIN .. him being a newbie.
Then there's no better way to learn, then, is there. No coddling around here. You throw them into the deep end of the pool. They learn to swim REAL FAST.
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Re: engine and tranny install
[Re: dodgeboy11]
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08/16/11 09:45 AM
08/16/11 09:45 AM
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Why can't you go from the bottom up? Set the jackstands back on the car a bit, tires on the back up on blocks, build something with wheels so you can roll the engine/trans and front k member under the car. Take the hood off. Hook your engine hoise through the engine compartment and suck it up against the car. Install bolts, torsion bars, upper control arms to the spindles and reinstall the calipers, which you should have hung from the fender supports with wire. Works like a charm. Just have to get the car high enough to roll the engine under it.. You can even have the headers installed. Hardest part is getting the steering shaft reconnected.
That is just about the most Rube Goldberg method I can think of for a driveway swap...
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Just have to get the car high enough
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Re: engine and tranny install
[Re: Commando1]
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08/16/11 12:35 PM
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dOc !
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This guy here appears to be a first-timer... lots of the cheapO cranes being tippy.... And AGAIN .. him being a newbie.
Then there's no better way to learn, then, is there. No coddling around here. You throw them into the deep end of the pool. They learn to swim REAL FAST.
GOIN' Commando .... a DOUBLE ...at choo' !
The prob is ... is that if the M/T combo gets-away from the OP ... it can damage the car SEVERELY ...or he can damage HISself !
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Re: engine and tranny install
[Re: POS Dakota]
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08/16/11 12:39 PM
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So...about those carb lift plates...I look at them and I just think it would really suck to drop a motor and trans if it pulled out on ya.
Are they really that strong? Can I trust it? I've never tried one, but i think I am going to have to this time around since I will be doing it all myself.
I am not a FAN of plates with alum intake manifolds. I have seen one pull-through the threads and badly damage the pan ...and have heard of others.
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