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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: omegabsw on 10 February 2011, 23:32:30

Title: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: omegabsw on 10 February 2011, 23:32:30

How hard is it to remove once the engine is out? any special tools/brute force?

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: sassanach on 10 February 2011, 23:38:20

just pull!!! :y

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: omegabsw on 10 February 2011, 23:41:47

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just pull!!! :y

I can do that!  :y

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: sassanach on 10 February 2011, 23:43:05

you leave the tc behind on the gearbox when you remove the engine....and it just pulls off :y

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: omegabsw on 10 February 2011, 23:48:53

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you leave the tc behind on the gearbox when you remove the engine....and it just pulls off :y

Thats blinding to know, cheers.

I removed a bmw V8 once and the TC was still on the lump

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: sassanach on 11 February 2011, 00:03:35

ahhh i see your boggle, you need to undo four bolts holding the tc to the flexplate,easily axcessed thro the hole in the lower bellhousing,rotate engine untill each bolt lines up in the hole and remove.

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: omegabsw on 11 February 2011, 00:08:36

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ahhh i see your boggle, you need to undo four bolts holding the tc to the flexplate,easily axcessed thro the hole in the lower bellhousing,rotate engine untill each bolt lines up in the hole and remove.

On the bmw right? not the omega

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: 2woody on 11 February 2011, 09:18:03

hole there on Omega, too.

T/C can come out with the engine, but MUST go in separately.

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: erubus on 11 February 2011, 09:41:28

sorry to slighty hijack, but i just did an engine swap and bolted the tc to the engine before putting the engine back in.  is thislikely to cause problems?

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: Kevin Wood on 11 February 2011, 10:09:04

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sorry to slighty hijack, but i just did an engine swap and bolted the tc to the engine before putting the engine back in.  is thislikely to cause problems?

There is a danger that you'll damage the bushing and oil seals that support the torque converter nose in the gearbox or, worse still, it won't engage fully with the autobox oil pump and you'll crush the torque converter as you tighten the bell housing bolts.

If you assemble the TC to the gearbox you can be sure that it has engaged and slid fully in before offering up the engine.

Kevin

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: erubus on 11 February 2011, 11:15:46

hopefully i'll be ok then, as the car has been driven since and isn't leaking fluid.  thanks for the info.  hijack over

Title: Re: v6 auto torque converter
Post by: Kevin Wood on 11 February 2011, 11:16:58

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hopefully i'll be ok then, as the car has been driven since and isn't leaking fluid.  thanks for the info.  hijack over

Yep, you got away with it. :y

Kevin