By Keith Clayton on Unrecorded Date: Edit

What's the easiest way to remove a driven torque converter from a JLO 440 engine? I'm doing an engine swap on my Attex and I have to take the converters off both the new one and the old one.
Thanks
Keith Clayton

By david berger (Davidrrrd) on Unrecorded Date: Edit

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WELL KITH YOU NEED THE RIGHT TOOL,
I MADE ONE BY CAIRFULY MESURING THE DEPTHE OF THE HOLE AFTER REMOVING THE BOLT THAT HOLDS ON THE CLUTCH, AFTER YOU KNOW HOW DEEP MESURE HOW DEEP THE BIGER THREAD IN THE CLUTCH GOS, YOU CAN REDUCE THE LENTH OF THE FIRST MESURMENT BY SOME OF THE LENTH OF THOUSE THREDS , LETS SAY BY 3/4S OF THE LENTH SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME CLUTCH HOLE AS A GIDE TO KEEP THE TWO BOLTS LINED UP AND ALSO INSURE YOU CAN GET THE INSIDE ONE OUT (lol)
i ground the head down on a carrege bolt and put a soft point on it too after cutting it to aprox lenth as above, now droping it into the hole it go's down a ways and leaves substantile lenth of threads in clutch hole for the right size bolt for thouse threads, you need a hardend bolt and thread coated with antiseze to help but the big bolt pushes on centered bolt to push apart the crank from clutch,
take a spark plug out and insert a long lenth of clean rope (like cloasline stuff) as much as you can while turning back and forth with the clutch till you get all you can in there, this will help hold the crank from moving while you work im told without any damage to engine, laiter it is easy to pull it out,
use a tork wrench to tighten your new tool and load it up a bunch while watching the tork on gage if it drops it means the bolt inside is bending so as much as posable without bending bolt inside,
when theres alot just take a brass rod 8 or 10 inches long and place one end on back of clutch at base where crank comes out and tap cairfuly with hamer
then try to get another angle to hit it the same way, i found i could find three diferent spots aposed to each other to hit mine, the shock transmited threw the clutch helps seperat the taperd fit along with the force from tork on the tool

method 2 same as above exept you can rent the right tool from ritchard clark
send $100.00 to him and he sends you tool
you pull them off cranks and send back tool ritchard sends you your $100.00 back this way he dosent loose tools,
he cannot take mastercard to speed things up as he lost bigg $$$$ on a bad deal
that guy screwed all of us when he burned ritchard clark,
and last but not least i just got catalogs from al's snowmobile parts wherehouse otherwise known as ATVparts.com there in vermont 1 807 487 1000
i see in there they have the tools at a nice price, call or e-mail them for the right part # for your aplication and then ask for there catalogs too!
they have 2 catalogs you need both
maybe you can tape your removal proses and send it to me so i can offer a "how too " video to the folkes who follow in the years to come, heh heh heh