I have done both and I have to concur with Frank's preferred way. Pull them
both. I did a clutch on a 78 that I had with tranny still in and it was a PITA
getting it all back together. I did the clutch in the 76 that I owned by
pulling both and it went a hellava lot faster! Even for my f-100 pickup. I
installed the 351C to the C-6 trans before and then installed the entire mess
in the truck. Easier than engine and tranny separate.
Matt P
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On May 30, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I recall Frank preferred to install the engine with the transmission
> attached. Can anyone on the list tell me why? Is it because it is more
> difficult to line up the engine to the transmission on an angle like that?
> Lin
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, BJNoSHOV8 <bjshov8 at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I've built a LOT of engines, and never used an engine stand. However for
>> some things I think there might be an advantage.
>>
>> We had a couple of steel tables in our shop, made out of steel pipe, steel
>> angles, and pretty thick steel on the top. We would set a block on the
>> table upside down. Then install the cam bearings, cam and crankshaft.
Then
>> we would screw 4 of the bellhousing bolts into the back of the engine and
>> turn it up on its back end. The bolts would stick out enough to hold the
>> block up and provide clearance for the flange end of the crankshaft. Then
>> we would put the pistons in, put the heads, intake, and covers on. Then
we
>> would paint the whole thing. (A little paint on the table never hurt
>> anything.) We would bolt a plate with a big loop on it in place of the
>> carburetor (for V engines), pick the engine up with our hoist, and lower
it
>> into the car.
>>
>> Nowadays it seems to be in vogue to use an engine stand, then one of those
>> little wheel-around hoists to pick up the engine, bolt the transmission on
>> and wrangle the whole thing into a car. We had a hoist on a track in the
>> roof of our shop, and we never put engine/transmission in at the same
time.
>> We worked on lots of cars where this would not have been possible due to
>> the size of the opening. (I defer to the people with experience on LBC's
>> regarding installing with or without the transmission in place, but for
most
>> other cars it is easier without.) Of course many cars these days use
>> subframes and it is easier to drop the whole subframe out the bottom.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I have painted lots of engines without an engine stand. You have to
>>> paint
>>> the bottom of the sump first or once it's in a car.
>>>
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