Mountaineerrider
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- 1998 Mercury Mountaineer
So ive been here done that but a long time ago when the internet didnt yet exist. My problem is this and Im thinking Im not the only one who has encountered this problem.
I am removing the transmission and replacing it on my 98 Mercury Mountaineer 4x4 all wheel drive. Everything is going as expected with hard to reach bolts, impossible to reach, etc. I have just started to remove the 4 nuts at the torque converter to flywheel and they are frozen. I used a breaker bar but that pretty much destroyed one nut, used the impact on another and it will not break. I have stopped in hopes that somebody has a trick here. These nuts are already quite rounded on the top from manufacturer and impossible to get a good bite on considering the hard to get to space where the starter lives.
My God can Ford make it any harder to pull a tranny???
Any other tips would be awesome as I have already scoped out the top tranny to engine bolts at the top with 1" of clearance to the firewall.....lookin forward to that!!!
I am removing the transmission and replacing it on my 98 Mercury Mountaineer 4x4 all wheel drive. Everything is going as expected with hard to reach bolts, impossible to reach, etc. I have just started to remove the 4 nuts at the torque converter to flywheel and they are frozen. I used a breaker bar but that pretty much destroyed one nut, used the impact on another and it will not break. I have stopped in hopes that somebody has a trick here. These nuts are already quite rounded on the top from manufacturer and impossible to get a good bite on considering the hard to get to space where the starter lives.
My God can Ford make it any harder to pull a tranny???
Any other tips would be awesome as I have already scoped out the top tranny to engine bolts at the top with 1" of clearance to the firewall.....lookin forward to that!!!