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Pipe on the end of your wrench for more leverage?
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Newbie swapping 350s, need tips, advice, warnings!
- Thread starter bobby dee
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I've used a combination box/open end wrench with another combination wrench hooked onto the first one's open end, for extra leverage..
If the floor hump (tranny tunnel) is un-boltable, its the best way to access the upper bell bolts..if not,there may be room enough to use the long extensions as suggested ,so you can sit behind the transfer case and loosen them with a ratchet..
Some guys I know used a 1" hole saw on the tranny hump to make holes to access the upper bell bolts and used some undercoating plugs to pop in the holes or those chrome ones...one K5 I had,someone did that,I used 1" expandable rubber freeze plugs to cork the holes up.
Sure made getting the transmission bolts out a lot easier from inside the truck..
If the floor hump (tranny tunnel) is un-boltable, its the best way to access the upper bell bolts..if not,there may be room enough to use the long extensions as suggested ,so you can sit behind the transfer case and loosen them with a ratchet..
Some guys I know used a 1" hole saw on the tranny hump to make holes to access the upper bell bolts and used some undercoating plugs to pop in the holes or those chrome ones...one K5 I had,someone did that,I used 1" expandable rubber freeze plugs to cork the holes up.
Sure made getting the transmission bolts out a lot easier from inside the truck..
Mine had been apart before, but the ratcheting box ends work decent for me up there. Still not easy, it's a tight squeeze, but they are pretty handy if you try from the top. Not sure that you can swing a hammer on it though, if they are that tight.
The "cheater" method shown above helps.
The "cheater" method shown above helps.
Throwout bearing slides on the collar on the transmission main shaft--so it has to go on before installing the transmission..(hope that's not bad news!)..
On most of the older GM's I've done clutches on,the fork was held on the ball stud in the bell housing by a clip--I've seen two kinds of clips,one is like a two pronged fork shape,those are used on stamped steel clutch forks,(I think its riveted to the fork)-and you slide the forked clip over the ball stud--- the older forks made of cast iron had a horse shoe looking clip that goes in the fork and you just pry or smack the fork to pop it onto the ball stud..
On most of the older GM's I've done clutches on,the fork was held on the ball stud in the bell housing by a clip--I've seen two kinds of clips,one is like a two pronged fork shape,those are used on stamped steel clutch forks,(I think its riveted to the fork)-and you slide the forked clip over the ball stud--- the older forks made of cast iron had a horse shoe looking clip that goes in the fork and you just pry or smack the fork to pop it onto the ball stud..
right...I need the fork OUT... there is very little room going either way... I did get the release bearing out... so I suppose I COULD just put the new one on...
Your fork looks like this one--note the clip on it..you push the fork in towards the bell housing to release it from the ball stud pivot .
I cant see the image...sigh
Not sure if you got it or not. In case you didn't, there is a spring fork held on by that rivet you see between the main forks. The open end of the fork is towards the outside of the transmission. Reach in from the front of the transmission, grab the fork and pull it toward you some to get the ball slightly out of that dimple you see. Then tap the fork toward the transmission shaft by tapping on the end of it outside the bell housing. You want it to slide straight in towards the input shaft of the transmission.
ah... nevermind http://www.boxwrench.net/specs/chevy_sb.htm
Does anybody out there know HOW clean I need this bell housing inside? I used 4 cans of brake cleaner, and lots of paper towels and a brush--but it is not shiny silver. The image above (not the one where it is black, but the 2nd one with the clutch fork) is about 80% of how clean I got it. Nothing sticky, but some darkness in the nooks and crannies. (who likes cleaning crannies?)
