painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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The 71 charger is going to the body shop so gotvto strip the car down the 440 is coming out to have compartment soda blasted what would be easyier to inatal? with tranny/bellhousing left in? Or yank both out as unit install as a unit? or yank both as a unit install the 440 with bellhousing/clutch then later the 4 speed?
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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What about install? Motor tranny togeather or motor then tranny or tranny them motor? 440 will be going in from top
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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It all depends on what you are comfortable with and if you have help, to guide the whole thing in. I do it by myself and always put the tranny in first. However I have only done automatics. Might be easier to install clutch and bell before and then just hoist up the 4 speed. My belief is less chance to scratch your new paint, with a shorter assembly..
I have mechanical Aptitude. I can screw up anything.
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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With a 4-speed you have 2 options ... install as an assembly (my preferred method) OR install the engine and bell first then curse and swear as you try to install the tranny later.
^^^ Agreed. Automatics are so much easier.
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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Getting it out is no problem getting it back in with out scratching is my concern i put the 340/auto in my pro street car that wasnt bad that being said 440/stick is a differn beast
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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Getting it out is no problem getting it back in with out scratching is my concern i put the 340/auto in my pro street car that wasnt bad that being said 440/stick is a differn beast
As long as you're careful and cover everything, it shouldn't be a concern. The load leveler really is the key. I wouldn't attempt it without it.
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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whats wrong with putting it all in from the bottom?
So easy a caveman could do it, without scratching anything.....
You're not kidding,it's a piece of cake.
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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Im not wanting to dissassemble the whole front susp. Dont have a means of moving the susp,motor,tranny under the car so in from the top it will be
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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Im not wanting to dissassemble the whole front susp. Dont have a means of moving the susp,motor,tranny under the car so in from the top it will be
Why send it to the soda blaster with the front suspension still hanging on it? I unbolted my k-frame, picked the car up with the cherry picker and put it up on jack stands real high. Then rolled the engine/trans/suspension out the front(was easy with the tires still on it). Took a couple of 2x4's, drilled some holes and bolted them onto the car where the k-frame bolted up originally and bolted some large casters to the 2x4's to make moving the car around easy. Makes working on everything so much easier when it's out.
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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Ralph here on angies comp. Im taking to blaster cause car color is getting changed sence paying for the paint job by the hour will be money ahead to pay the 100.00 hour for the soda blasting to have them do under the hood inside trunk and door jambs insted of paying the paint shop by the hour to sand all them areas i think i will drop the 440in from top then install the 4 speed from under the car
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Re: painting car.. remove motor/4speed or just motor?
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I put my bigblock (RB) and 727 in as a unit, by myself, in my freshly painted Dart. No scratches or engine leveller either. Make sure the rear of the car is as high as you can safely get it, and the front as low as you can get it. Just helps with angles. codfish
Last edited by codfish; 04/22/12 10:52 PM.
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