Cracked Cylinder Repair: Torque Bolts

Video Transcript

"Next thing, Dan is going to remove the dust shield for the torque converter. It's a little inspection cover that is made of real thin steel and a couple of bolts holding that. And you remove that and it allows you to get to the torque converter bolts. I think one of the things I've seen people do most often when removing a transmission--I mean removing an engine from a car is leaving the torque converter attached to the flexplate. So the piece of steel you can see there right now, the one with the teeth in it, that's how a flexplate is attached to the engine. On a car with a standard transmission, it's called a flywheel. On a car with an automatic transmission like this one, it's called a flexplate. So the engine will come out of the car with the flexplate attached to the transmission torque converter. It won't go back in but it will come out, and you can damage the torque converter and the transmission seal if you do it that way. So always take the bolts out of the flexplate that hold it to the torque converter. This car has four bolts holding the flexplate to the torque converter, and there's a variety of tools made for turning the flexplate so you can get to the torque converter bolts. Dan has decided, on this motor, the easiest way to turn it is to grab the front pulley nut. So he's down underneath the car watching the flexplate rotate as he's turning the motor a little bit to get the next flywheel or the next flexplate to torque converter bolt exposed. And now he can loosen that next bolt and turn the motor a little bit."