i have a good auto trans that's attached to a seized engine (still in the car)

 

socket and long freaking pipe - engine will not turn over at all so i can't remove the flexplate bolts.

 

only thing i can think of is cutting the bellhousing and that's not worth the time.

Only thing I can think of is to remove them from the car and very gently seperate them with the TC still attached to the flex plate. It will take at least 2 people and you will have to take extra care not to bend the input shaft on the tranny, as it will probably come telescoping out when you seperate things. I did this on an EA81 a while back. was a real pain in the rump roast, but it worked.

that is awesome! interesting, i didn't think about that. the car is already "front high", i'm wondering if i just unbolt the trans if it will slide down under the car? i doubt i'll go through the trouble of pulling the entire engine/trans since i have another 4EAT, but i'd like to keep it since i know it was perfect.

 

unbolt everything and use a come along to yank it out and support underneath?

easiest way to do it, sine I just did it myself, is to take the engine out with the TC connected to it. I had to cut the core support to give the engine enough room to slide out but it was very easy. Just all depends on it you plan on keeping the body or not.

Just all depends on it you plan on keeping the body or not.

nope, scrap yard.

I did it, mostly because I just didn't want to unbolt the flexplate with it all still attached, and yep, just used a comealong, and pulled them apart, they actually come apart pretty easily (or did for me...)

now that I think about it...

 

The one time I've had to remove an auto tranny (from a soob)... I unbolted the TC from the flexplate... Jacked up the engine and tranny a bit, started to slide the transmission back, and the TC decided it wanted to stay on the engine.

Of course, one of the inner shafts on the transmission decided it wanted to stay in the TC though Took some work, but finally got the TC off the engine and back on the tranny.

Had a wasted honda integra motor one time with an auto trans. I pulled the plugs and soaked the pistons with pen. oil. then I just started yanking back and forth on the crank pully till it started to rotate the motor it finally worked its way 360 deg. and I got all the flex plate bolts off ok.

No one is mentioning what may happen of that shaft comes sliding out....

 

I heard that everything inside the tranny wont line up right anymore if that shaft comes sliding out.... any truth to that?

The problem/difficulty is aligning all of the shafts when reinstalling the TC (takes some patience), but I think that Gary has that covered.

The only shaft connecting the tc with the trans is the pump. By removing the trans with out the tc you will just need to slide the pump drive back into the trans. If the body is going to scrap just unbolt the front uni-body and raise the body off of the motor/trans. Easiest way to remove the combo from the car.

Id pull the tranny and then drill the torque converter bolts out (you might lose the torque converter but oh well).

 

The drive rod runs from the torque converter all the way thru the trans clutch packs. The odds of damaging anything from pulling it and reinstalling it are very slim though, if its slides in by hand you are fine.