Backwards bolt?

Where is the backwards bolt i keep hearing about when removing the motor?

Only ones I can think of are the screws that hold on the idler & tensioner pulleys.

The "Backwards Bolt" or "Bastard Bolt" as it's also known, is really not such a big deal. One of the bellhousing bolts faces the other way, threaded into the transmission through a hole in the block instead of the other way round. It's down by the long part of the transmission, the opposite side from the starter. It can easily be reached with the passenger side wheel and inner fender liner removed (which you should have off if you are pulling the motor anyhow). A couple of long extensions and an 18mm socket and out it comes. If you don't know it's there, it can be puzzling to figure out why the engine isn't freeing up. If you know it's there, it's not a big deal.

You can reach it from the top with a box wrench, but it's a little tough to break free. I recommend a bunch of extensions and a breaker bar from the pass. side wheel opening.

deekster_caddy wrote:

The "Backwards Bolt" or "Bastard Bolt" as it's also known, is really not such a big deal. One of the bellhousing bolts faces the other way, threaded into the transmission through a hole in the block instead of the other way round. It's down by the long part of the transmission, the opposite side from the starter. It can easily be reached with the passenger side wheel and inner fender liner removed (which you should have off if you are pulling the motor anyhow). A couple of long extensions and an 18mm socket and out it comes. If you don't know it's there, it can be puzzling to figure out why the engine isn't freeing up. If you know it's there, it's not a big deal.

You can reach it from the top with a box wrench, but it's a little tough to break free. I recommend a bunch of extensions and a breaker bar from the pass. side wheel opening.

Well thank you wish I would have known this 3 months ago. Me and my dad spent 2 days in a junkyard trying to pull out a motor and then couldnt get it seperated from the transmisson. We spent like 4 hours trying to find a bolt me may have missed and then gave up. Dammit could have had a pretty damn good supercharged motor and would have been driving a fully maroon car instead of a half one. lol wow. Thanj youv though

AA wrote:

Only ones I can think of are the screws that hold on the idler & tensioner pulleys.

lol wut?

98riviera98 wrote:

AA wrote:

Only ones I can think of are the screws that hold on the idler & tensioner pulleys.

lol wut?

The mounting bolts for the idler and tensioner pullies on the L67 engine are reverse threaded. This is so that the normal turning direction of the pulley would tend to tighten the pulley mounting bolt.

Albertj

albertj wrote:

98riviera98 wrote:

AA wrote:

Only ones I can think of are the screws that hold on the idler & tensioner pulleys.

lol wut?

The mounting bolts for the idler and tensioner pullies on the L67 engine are reverse threaded. This is so that the normal turning direction of the pulley would tend to tighten the pulley mounting bolt.

Albertj

I've never removed any pulleys before pulling a motor.. lol

^^^ good thing - you might've twisted'em off

This isn't terribly important, unless you're looking for a new bolt. They're called left-hand thread bolts. Kind of rare, but you run across them occasionally. In the '50s Chrysler used them for wheel lugs on the driver's side--same principle but opposite reason to what Albert said. They seemed to think that RH lugs could cause those wheels to come loose.
Maybe Chrysler still uses them. I don't know.

AA wrote:

^^^ good thing - you might've twisted'em off

This is truu my dude.