you gotta have a flywheel turner you can get one at like sears or auto zone mac tools has one too for like fifteen bucks
Remove the driveshaft from the back of your Chevy transmission. Remove the transmission mount retaining bolts. Remove the retaining bolts from the Bell housing. The transmission can then slide backwards. Don't forget to unbolt the torque converter from the flex-plate and remove the torque converter with the transmission.
Remove the starter and remove the protector places behind the started
You need to remove the lower transmission inspection cover.
You have to pull the transmission. then it's just 3 bolts/nuts through flywheel.
It is between the front of the transmission and the back of the engine block. It slides over a shaft and into the pump on the front of the transmission. Before you remove the transmission to service the torque converter you must remove the 3 bolts that hold the converter to the FLY-WHEEL.
Bell housing bolts and the torque converter bolts.
After you have removed the cover from the lower half of the torque converter housing and driveplate you can remove the four bolts that secure the torque converter to the driveplate. Remove them one at a time by rotating the engine so that each bolt comes into view at the bottom where you have removed the driveplate cover.
There is a small access panel underneath that you must remove first in order to access the torque converter bolts. The panel is very small so a socket and wrench should be used. Bolts should be 17MM. Good luck!
nope. you still have the 6 18mm bolts that bolt the flywheel to the crank
Well, honey, to disconnect the torque converter clutch on a 1989 2.8 Chevy Celebrity, you're gonna have to get under that car and locate the torque converter clutch solenoid. Unplug the electrical connector and remove the bolts holding the solenoid in place. Once that's done, you can kiss that torque converter clutch goodbye! Just be sure to handle it with care, we don't need any more drama under that hood.
If the bolts are 3/8-16, the torque would be 50 ft/lbs. If 7/16, 65 ft/lbs.
On the torque converter. Do a Google search and read about torque converters.