As you pull the engine make sure the torque converter is staying behind, and after the engine is out run a piece of rope/paracord/wire through a couple of bellhousing bolts just to make sure the torque converter doesn't get any ideas of its own while you are later working in the engine bay trying to improve something you see you have easy access to at the moment.
On reinstallation it will be easy to rotate the torque converter to line up the first of the three bolts, and then again you will need to rotate the engine in order to access the other two, one at time.
I take you mean kinda seatbelt the tc in?
4-bolts in this case, but yes remove the inspection cover on the front lower portion of the bellhousing and you'll see the bolts. Good advice on the string or strap to keep the t/c in place. Before you go to mate things up, make sure the t/c is fully engaged and seated in the transmission or you will damage the pump in the front of the transmission. When you put it in, keep rotating it as there are two sets of splines that need to engage. Per the FSM, the front face of the bolt lugs on the converter should be at least 1/2" below the front face of the bellhousing - mine was closer to 3/4". After everything is bolted back up, there should still be a little forward-back movement of the t/c - mine is about 3/16". If you can't get the bellhousing to pull up tight, stop and check the t/c isn't bound up by not being seated, or that you pinched the breather tube in there like I did.
Lawsoncl,
-Does the Tc simply push in/ slip/ slide?
I need to find more pictures of this because I don't fully understand how all this is joined together.
- will I be able to feel this engage or am I just turning until it measures 1/2" below the bellhousing mating surface?
-how should I be able to tell this forward/ back 3/16th movement after everything is bolted up?
To update I have disassembled everything other than:
.
NSS
.transfer case plug & breather
Trans breather
. Whichever wire isn't the tc plug or nss, I'm uncertain what this goes to- driver side trans maybe?
Do these need to be unpluged to lower the trans to pull the engine? Is lowering the trans(auto)mandatory to get accesd to e12, is this standard procedure?
. Transfer case and trans shift linkages( i hope these are easy remove/install)
Please ask and double check if you think I might be missing anything, I'm going off what I can see.
Lastly I do not have a Fsm obviously, currently no computer, nor room on my phone to download, however
Does the FSM
clearly walk you through removal & Install?
Thanks all I'm sure I'll have more ?s,
Today I've picked up a replacement from another member. Just need to get the old one out and some helpers.