Ive just pulled the engine and trans out as one unit and while looking for my chiltons manual i see that I have to remove the tq convertor acces hols and soin the crankshaft to acces each bolt. My question is how am i to do that as my motor is locked up?? The car in quuestion is a 95 max auto

 

If the engine won't turn then just undo the bolts surrounding the trans and pull it off. The only thing that will happen is that the TC will leak when you pull the trans away from the engine and the TC is still attached. Thats the only reason for removing the bolts attaching the TC to the flexplate. It is messy so be prepared for a quart or so to come out.

 

thanx for help. i seperated the trans today. next ? are there some bolts that hold the flexplate to the engine or something. how do i get that and the tq off?

 

Now that you have them separated you still need to remove the 4 bolts that hold the TC to the flexplate through the inspection panel at the bottom. However if you can't turn the engine over you can't remove the TC or flexplate unless you can reach those 4 bolts.

 

Basically you're screwed, but not totally. once you remove the lower & upper oil pan and unbolt the crank/rods you should be able to spin it to get at all the bolts, the rear-main seal & retainer wraps all the way around the crank and with the flywheel and tourqe convertor in place you still can't just pull the crank out w/tq attached. Have fun and post pics of the damage, I love seeing destroyed vq's

 

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The only good VQ is a dead VQ.