How do I mount to engine stand?

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Andre68

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Pulled my 318 out of my Dart, i pulled the bellhousing and tranny off and know it just has the flex plate and something else, I don't believe it's a torque converter... Maybe clutch? Anyway it's attached to the flex plate and I'm having trouble take this off so I can mount the engine on the stand. Also how do I mount the engine? I own the harbor freight engine stand.... Bellhousing holes on engine look to small for the engine stand.
 
Pictures of the thing stuck to the flex plate might help.

Usually a clutch is bolted to a flywheel not a flexplate, is your dart a manual transmission or an automatic?

If your car is an automatic and the "something else" looks like a giant donut then it's a torque converter and is held on with 4 large bolts (3/4"-13/16" from memory) through the flexplate.

You will need to rotate the crankshaft 90 degrees to access and remove each one from underneath the engine.

Sometimes these bolts are sixteen sided but a regular socket will work fine on them.

Attach the engine to the engine stand with high tensile bolts into the bellhousing pattern. Try to get some the correct length.

If the holes in the engine stand are too large for the head of the bolts, use THICK washers.

When bolting the block to the stand, try to get the centre of gravity of the engine close to the pivot of rotation. If possible adjust this again after the cylinder heads are installed.

This just makes it easier to rotate the engine when assembling it. (without it wanting to go upside down every time you unfasten the stay)
 
Everything on an engine is held together by nuts and bolts. Look for some.
 
Look on the back, where the transmission was bolted on. There is a metal cover with bolts around it's perimeter. Should be six bolts. Remove them. Be careful with the cover. It's called a pressure plate and it has some weight to it. Don't let it fall on your foot. Once removed, the clutch disc is inside and will fall out when you remove the pressure plate. Then look at the big round wheel on the back with all the teeth around the circumference. That's the flywheel. The teeth are what the starter engages when you hit the key. The flywheel has six bolts in the center that hold it on. Remove them again being careful. The flywheel is heavy too. Even with all the bolts out, it will probably be a little stuck. Just grab it at 3 and 9 and 6 and 12 and rock it back and forth and it will come off. Check the pilot bushing. That is in the center of the back of the crankshaft. They usually last a long time, but if it looks worn, you will want to replace it when you go back together with all of it.
 
There is a shaft in the center that holds it on . Get the long saw-all blades at harbor frieght and cut it off at that spot. You will be getting a new one anyway. This is the "henway" and is usually replaced when reinstalled.
 
Oldmanmopar said:
There is a shaft in the center that holds it on . Get the long saw-all blades at harbor frieght and cut it off at that spot. You will be getting a new one anyway. This is the "henway" and is usually replaced when reinstalled.
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You so funny! But then looks aren't everything!:toothy10:
 

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Not a real clear picture but it was all I could find.

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Thanks, Sireland, I was gonna mention that. Got "downtown" and buy some threaded rod, grade 5 if you can get it, some nuts and a big pile of 3/8 USS washers. US "through bolts" as in the photo through the large unthreaded holes in the bottom of the block, then saw off some rod and screw into two of the upper threaded block holes. 3/8 US course thread.
 
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