Can I pull engine out with tranny attached

[AlaskaDan]

Did a search and cannot anyone who has done this. After my 3rd head, 2006, 175,000 miles I am replacing engine to a 3.7. Have everything disconnect from engine and tranny. Cannot break tranny from engine. 11 tranny bolts remove and 3 torque bolts. I even jacked engine up. Engine and tranny are swing in the bay. Do I put a couple tranny bolts in and keep jacking? Or lower it back down? I think my mistake was removing the tranny from the cross member.

Help?

 

[06 H3]

You removed the flywheel bolts right?

I'm trying to remember if I pulled my I5 out with the trans. I think I did...I gotta go back through my pics. I had to remove my grille though and it's a tight fit

 

[AlaskaDan]

Fly wheel bolts. If that would mean the 3 hex bolts. The manual calls them torqu convert bolts?

Pics would be great. Yes I have fan off, radiator and A/C cooler removed.

 

[06 H3]

Yep motor and trans came out together. Let the air out of the tires because I'm lifted. T case was not attached though.

 

[06 H3]

Because I am lifted it may have helped and hurt. It hurt because I had to let all the air out and I was still barely able to get it high enough. But it may have helped so I could get it pointing straight up without the trans hitting the ground. Once I got it up high enough I then I ratchet strapped it so the tail end of the trans to bring it level again. Putting it back in I put the motor in by itself then did the trans from the bottom

 

[AlaskaDan]

.wow awesome pic. Ok Ill try. Ixhave my hood removed also. Ill get a pic also. So once you had the unit on the ground did the tranny easily come off.

 

[Mr_Rich]

What has probably happened is the dowel pins on the engine have corroded into the bellhousing of the trans. I had that problem on my LS1 with a T56 manual trans in my car when I did a swap four years ago. It took a lot of persuasion to remove the bellhousing and even thern one dowel pin stayed with the bellhousing and one stayed with the block.

 

[5gn-h3t]

Make 1000% sure that all the bolts are out and then go at it with a long pry bar. These engines can stick pretty good to the transmissions.

 

[Mr_Rich]

I just remembered...PB Blaster...spray the dowel pin area with this stuff and let it soak in. Be careful about banging on things since it is aluminum alloy and it can get chewed up. You don't want that. Put the bolts back in loosely because when it pops it will probably surprise you.

 

[AlaskaDan]

Yup Mr Rich that was it. BUT what I did is used a 2 by 4. Sawed an angle at the end so it would hammer into the torque bolt access hole. Pounded it in a few strikes and the used the 2 by 4 to pry the two apart. It took like 1 minute.