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Install and Tighten Torque Converter Bolts

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Budget Turbo Yukon XL 4L80 Conversion: We Have Driveshafts! Torque Converter Spacing & Shop Talk

What happens here

The shimmed torque converter bolts are installed and tightened. The engine is slowly rotated using a wrench on the crankshaft bolt to access each bolt. It's crucial to thread each bolt all the way in by hand before final tightening, ensuring the converter is pulled flush against the flexplate without binding. This allows for slight movement (play) without risking damage. Failure to do so can lead to the bolt heads hitting the oil pan, as initially experienced by the presenter.

Goal: Securely attach the torque converter to the flexplate with correct shimming.

Tools and materials

  • Socket Wrench — Tightening the torque converter bolts
  • Wrench — Rotating the engine's crankshaft bolt for access
  • Shimmed Torque Converter Bolts — Securing the torque converter to the flexplate

What they say

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but when the escalade has six freaking bolts it was just a pain in the butt so well i don't know you guys can use your imagination i'm just in here doing it right now so now we get two more anymore out of the escalade bag and i know we have enough of these because um i didn't find them all when we pulled the motor but i found some in the back of elvis and i found some that fell off at lme when they were taking my flex plate off and i have them in elvis just in case we need them so now we're gonna turn the motor over two the next hole can you tell me when it's there can you can you crank i'll tell you yeah okay crank it let's [ __ ] it crank that soldier boy are you going to win are you gonna [ __ ] at me when i go too far no keep going you're about an hour away she freaking hates doing that yeah because you're gonna yell at me i didn't yell at you you didn't what like you yelled at me yellow belly stop being a dick because i was nervous and you damn well know that i knew not to [ __ ] double pull them and i didn't [ __ ] need to i never drive your truck ever and then i'm grabbing it like to do that like i don't know the like i don't know when it's gonna like when your brakes are actually gonna do something i don't know your car like i know mine like it's just one of those things well those people damn well know they're double bulbing and they do it all the time i don't know your car yeah that's all true so suck it go [ __ ] yourself all right i don't know i even do this the first time man this is some tricky stuff here damn it good job i got it oh thanks i dumped on it like it was a spider good it's dead it has surrendered really how to do this i got inside your nose oh nice to see boogers in there oh i got it oh yeah check that out check it out fully inserted that's not the only thing i'm gonna be fully inserted you're right it's not oh i thought you wanted me to do that so yeah you can do that crank it make sure that the socket is fully inserted on the nut torque keep going keep going about another hour all right stop wait wait a little more about another hour [ __ ] at me well i was looking i fell off the net that's why i was scraping the rust off let me do it next time damn it oh okay yeah she was freaking just i'm under here doing stuff and she took this thing here this little dust shield and she's just over here like making a making a freaking racket while i'm trying to do stuff like damn…

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