12V V6 auto transmission seperaqtion

**Richard2** · #1 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 09:05 PM

I have a 12V V6 C/W auto transmission sitting on the floor of my greenhouse. I need to separate the 2. I haven't worked on an auto before and the PO told me I had to go through the starter hole to remove torque converter bolts and rotate the engine over to get them all. I don't see this procedure in the manual. It looks like a pretty straight forward unbolt job to me, right?

ALFAHEIDA · #2 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 03:02 AM

Did you take a look at Steve's maintanance topic about the Automatic transmission?

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/164-...r-16-01-a.html

Alfa1277 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard2

I have a 12V V6 C/W auto transmission sitting on the floor of my greenhouse. I need to separate the 2. I haven't worked on an auto before and the PO told me I had to go through the starter hole to remove torque converter bolts and rotate the engine over to get them all. I don't see this procedure in the manual. It looks like a pretty straight forward unbolt job to me, right?

**Alfisto Steve** · #4 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 05:31 AM

You can remove the A/T from engine by just removing first the starter, metal dust cover on bottom of bellhousing (3 10mm hex head bolts) same as on the 5-speed bellhousing and the bellhousing bolts from engine.

You can leave torque convertor on flywheel and pull tranny just like leaving clutch on flywheel or you can remove three allen head bolts holding it to 3-legged flex plate (part of flywheel) through the oval holes in flywheel either by going under engine to acess them as you rotate engine or through starter hole and pull both at once.

If you tip front of tranny down convertor can slide off input shaft so be careful. It is splined to shaft and notch fitted to oil pump drive gear so be careful refitting it to tranny.

**Richard2** · #5 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 06:48 AM

The timing belt is off the engine, so I'd rather no get into rotating the engine, but it sounds like that is necessary if I want to separate the torque converter from the engine. I may just take the heads off, they're not torqued down anyway. I need to gt the transmission off for storage room.

**Alfisto Steve** · #6 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard2

The timing belt is off the engine, so I'd rather no get into rotating the engine, but it sounds like that is necessary if I want to separate the torque converter from the engine. I may just take the heads off, they're not torqued down anyway. I need to gt the transmission off for storage room.