Locked Up 6.2 Diesel

[cucvrus]

Any tricks to get the 6.2 diesel out when it is locked up tight? I have the heads and pan off 5 connecting rod caps disconnected, all the main bearings and caps removed, the timing chain and gear. It is basically a block. I would not fuss so much but I could get 5 of the 6 torque converter bolts. But as fate has it the one with/in the weight on the flex plate is at 12 noon on the crank. Dead center top side. That and I got struck in the thumb with shrapnel when I was hitting the pistons from the top side. It bleed like I hit an artery. Stop production. Fall back and regroup. I took a break to regroup and come up with a strategy. Another plan of attack. This engine is coming out today.

 

[doghead]

Why not pull the motor with the flexplate and torque converter still attached to the crank?

 

[Recovry4x4]

Why not pull the motor with the flexplate and torque converter still attached to the crank?

This! I'll have to say though, that bolt surrounded by weights is a real PITA, removed one yesterday. Have you tried one of these?

 

[doghead]

Just don't install it assembled, as you can damage the pump.

 

[dmetalmiki]

Why not pull the motor with the flexplate and torque converter still attached to the crank?

that would be my strategy

 

[m38inmaine]

That's how I did it when my crank snapped, pulled it convertor and all.

 

[infidel got me]

Always a pain when they wont turn-- like Doghead said convertor and flexplate or the trans. attached. Get your catch pans ready.

 

[cucvrus]

I have that fly wheel turning tool in the Snap-On version. This 6.2 engine was locked tight. No problem. The answer was right at door.I wheeled out the oxygen /acetylene torch and cut the offending connecting rods off. Worked like a charm. No burns I put on my PPE. I do not like pulling engines with the torque converter attached. That is hard on the front pump and the transmission. You need an exact angle. I know it can be done. I have done it hundreds of times but not when I am going to be putting it back together. Maybe at the salvage yard/can point. Even at the YOUPULLIT I try my best to do extractions the right way. Some other poor guy may need the attached part that I just opened up to the elements. I worked harder then I had to but I achieved the desired goal. Thank you for advise. While you were giving it I was torching.

 

[infidel got me]

Goal achieved! Run or walk, you ended up where you needed to be.

 

[doghead]

After seeing that you started a new thread on your humvee, I moved this thread to the correct forum.

You could not have had easier access to simply slide the engine forward, and save all that torch work, but to each his own, yadda yadda yadda...

 

[cucvrus]

I love torch work. And I asked about the locked up 6.2 engine because it is the same engine as a CUCV and I am familiar with a CUCV. Just a little not as well as you. I will have to study and work much harder to keep up with you.Master.