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When jacking up your car, jack under number-two crossmember-under the engine. Some
unit-body cars are not equipped with this crossmember, so you'll have to jack under something
solid like the front-supension strut-rod bushing bracket. This car is firmly supported
by jack stands under front torque boxes. Don't forget to block rear wheels.
set comes in handy for reaching the nuts.
Don't be surprised if the studs unthread
from the manifold.
Cooling Lines and Starter-Motor Cable-
With an automatic transmission, make
sure the cooling lines are unclipped from
CAUTION-If you use the friend-andstarter
method, make sure he understands
the ignition switch is not to be touched
without your direction.
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the engine. Some have clips and some Now for the Starter Motor-After redon't.
If yours does, just push the lines moving the converter nuts, disconnect the
out of the clips to release them. While battery cables at the battery. Remove the
you're looking up where these lines gousually
on the right side with down-flow
bottom starter bolt first, then the top one
while supporting the front of the starter
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radiators and left side with cross-flows- with one hand. Lifting a starter out is
make sure the starter-to-battery lead is tricky on unit-body cars equipped with
out of its bracket. conventional steering-not rack and
Engine Mounts-If you couldn't reach an pinion. Slide the starter forward, and
engine mount from topside to remove its drop its nose-geared end-between the
bolts, do it now. Remember, once the nut steering linkage and the converter housing.
is off, just slide the bolt out.
If you don't need to remove your starter CI)
Expose the Converter-With an automatic motor for rebuilding, you don't need to
transmission, remove the converter cover disconnect the cable. Just leave it hanging
at the front of the engine plate. It's usually there until it is ready to be replaced. Supattached
with two or three bolts.
port it with some wire or rope to take the
Get Power to the Starter-With an auto- load off the cable.
matic transmission, reconnect the battery Finish Unbolting the Bellhousing-Regardground
so you'll have power to the starter. less of which transmission you have, the
Now, if you don't possess a remote rest of the removal process is pretty much
starter, have a trustworthy friend bump the same. The only job left before lowering Advantage Of a long for disconnecting
exhaust pipes is evident here. A
the engine over to expose each of the your car is to remove the remaining bell- shot of oil on nuts and studs an
converter-to-flexplate nuts for removal-a h~~sing/converter-housing bolts. After hour or so before you're ready to remove
socket on the front of the crank pulley doing this, take one last look underneath them will also help.
works well too. Particularly if you've just to make certain everything is disconremoved
the spark plugs.
nected from the engine.