From under the vehicle with the lower dust cover removed. You will need to rotate the engine by hand until you have all three started before you tighten any.
turn the flywheel with a big screwdriver
Usually with bolts.
Torque converter bolts No. Fly-wheel bolts YES.
nope. you still have the 6 18mm bolts that bolt the flywheel to the crank
You have to pull the stater and grind a space in the adaptor for a socket to clear to the torque convertor bolts.
take the tranny out and the flywheel is right on back of the engine, unbolt the flywheel and take it off and install new flywheel with new bolts and torque them down.
Remove the starter and the dust shield. Remove the four bolts (spaced every 90 degrees around the flywheel) and then the torque converter will be loose.
If the bolts are 3/8-16, the torque would be 50 ft/lbs. If 7/16, 65 ft/lbs.
You have to pull the transmission. then it's just 3 bolts/nuts through flywheel.
if the bolts line up but u'll have to replace flywheel or the torque converter, check spacing of bolts
I assume you have the transmission out of the car. It has to be out to replace the torque converter. The old torque converter will just pull off, but you may have to spin it back and forth a couple of times. When you install the new one, slide it on the shaft and spin it back and forth while pushing it towards the transmission and it will slide back towards the transmission. You have to do this again, because it has two sets of gears that it has to engage. If it doesn,t slide back twice, you will never get the transmission to slide up to the motor correctly. You may get bolts in it, but you will break something trying to tighten the bolts. If the transmission does not slide up to the motor without a lot of force, you do not have the torque converter on all the way. If it does, you should be able to bolt the transmission to the engine fairly easily. Once the transmission is bolted up correctly, you can turn the flywheel to line up the three bolts that hold the torque converter to the flywheel. Make sure you torque the flywheel to converter bolts to the specified torque settings, and they will vary according to the specific transmission, usually around 45 FT LBS.
That is normal, Just put the converter bolts in it and it will be alright.