Can I yank the engine and transmission in one piece? I have the equipment to do it, just not sure if it would clear.


Thanks

 

If you have the tilting device , and pull the rad. ,rad. support , it should go , but are thinking of the transfercase also , then no , you may have to tilt it enough to need to lift truck some .
But just take all out one at a time , could be less greaff in the long run.

 

I was planning on taking the tcase off anyways, its only a 15 minute job and I think it could make things a lot easeir.

 

why you pulling it?

 

Im pulliing it because I need to drop the transmission anyways and pull the head so it might be easier to do it this way and I want to fix all my darn oil leaks.

 

you need to pull the back 3 valve covers and rockerboxes off, don,t forget it will be tight, i got a few dents in my oil pan because i wasn't gentle enough, and the insulation is almost history when pulling a motor, so dont be surprised if it gets a lot louder efterwards. you can only get the last cylinder pushrods out, so just be careful not to bend the pushrods. engine and tranny will come out together, dont forget the slave cylinder!! 300 bucks at dodge! also, i found no need to pull the tranny crossmember, but my truck was a 2wd

 

Excelent info! Dont have a manual so no slave cylinder. What is a rockerbox? Any other stuff that I should be aware of?

Thanks!

 

No offence but if you don't know what a rocker box is you prob aren't skilled enough to do all this work yourself. I thought a rockerbox is pretty self explanitory, its a valve cover

 

No offence , but your the first person i have heard call it a rocker box, in this day of OHC and DOHC , we don't have "rocker boxes" anymore they are Valve covers.

Don't knock Jambii , From what i know about him, he is more mechanically able than your average human.

 

Ive never heard rocker box either. and I think he has a body lift, so it should be a lot easier to pull than the average truck.

 

I think he is refering to the rocker stands..

 

I would say the rockerbox isn't a valve cover... maybe you are referring to the block that holds the rocker arms in place. Either way, you'll be able to see once you take the valve covers off what needs to come out.

 

Sorry guys I must have miss understood

 

the rockerbox is the stand that holds the rocker arms in place, like crimedog said... and thats the only thing i have ever heard them called. there is 2 bolts that holds each of them on. a bog one and a little one. the big one is actually a head bolt so make sure it is re-torqued correctly, i think it is 95 ft lbs.

 

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