It's like doing the old cars of the 60's. Inner and outer roller bearings and 4148 seals. Very simple, easy job. You can even have beer while doing this and not have to worry about putting something on backwards.

Wait....I take that last line back. Does beer have caffeine? lol.

 

I'm pretty sure some of them do. Lol

 

Guys I need some help. I am almost done prepping the 4.3 to go in my boat and I have hit a snag. On the rear of my crank shaft there are six threaded studs where the flywheel bolts on on my old engine. They are not coming out so I figured I would just buy new ones. My problem is that I have no clue what they are called or where to find them. If anyone knows off hand I would really appreciate it.

 

Boat engine 4.3 Chev? Are these the flywheel mounting studs/bolts? Centered on the flywheel or outdrive plate? Picture?

 

Yessir, they are studs that mount in the rear of the crankshaft right outside of the rear main seal. They would be the six that go in the holes that are pictured here.

 

Thanks for the tip AK. Sounds like my Mustang (currently). The Ranger setup sucks. If you don't get the torque just right, you're going to have it humming again really quick.

On a side note..... errr question, I know a few of you have done some home improvements lately. I just finished the vinyl floor downstairs and have a crap ton of adhesive left. I am also putting vinyl cove base on down there, and I was wondering if the floor adhesive would work out for this as well? I have seen that there's a vinyl cove specific adhesive, but I'd like to use this crap up if I could.

 

Flywheel mounting bolts.

If your's are studs, you will have to go to a Marine dealer (Mercruiser, Volvo, etc) to get the specific ones. Otherwise you can get them at a good fasterner shop in grade 8 (stud's if that is what you are using---drive plate?). The regular headed flywheel bolts can be purchased at almost any parts house. You might be able to get specialty studs from the performance section of the parts store you go to. What does the bolt/stud you took out look like? This is the Mr Gasket common set #912 (7/16x20). There are different lengths for AT and MT because of the thickness of the flywheels.

Sorry White. I'm not into sticky situations so much anymore. lol I don't know on cove vs linoleum cements. Why not try it on a small piece to something and see if it works for you? Just a thought.

 

Thank you for taking the time to try and find those for me. I haven't been able to pull any of them out of my old crank yet and was hoping that these may have been a standard automotive part but no luck. I think my outer threads are about 1.5" but I'm not with my old engine right now to measure. Looks like I'm going to have to be marine centric for these parts.

 

Really easy actually. Same process as swapping the into new rotors.

Pull the caliper, undo the spindle nut, remove rotor, pull the seal, and the bearing comes on out.

 

The regular tin flex plate is shorter ones and the longer ones are the MT, because it's 1/2 thick where they mount.