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Engine and Transmission Removal

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Richard Petty Tribute 1972 Dodge Charger Needs Help to Race Again! (It Has Serious Problems)

What happens here

The team prepares the existing engine for removal by disconnecting various components including the throttle linkage and oil pressure lines. They use an engine hoist to carefully lift the engine out of the bay. The transmission, which was revealed to have no supporting cross member, is removed along with the engine. Upon closer inspection, the transmission is identified as a potentially low-quality unit. This clears the engine bay for power washing and inspection of the underlying chassis.

Goal: Extract the current engine and transmission from the race car.

Tools and materials

  • Engine Hoist — Lifting the engine and transmission
  • Lift Plate — Attaching the engine to the hoist
  • Oil Pressure Lines — Part of the engine assembly
  • Race Car — The primary vehicle for the project
  • Throttle Linkage — Part of the engine assembly
  • Wrenches/Socket Set — Disconnecting engine and transmission components

What they say

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see that i'll be one of the time bandits that used to come by the race shop and take up all your time then you have to stay past midnight to get your job done it's a shame because this would have been a really i mean it was a cool concept and they just ruined it aside from this thing being being all boogered up what what are we gonna do to it to make it turn better if that's even possible i think all you choices you got here is those jack bolt things start putting rounds in the jack bolt and raising the track bar up and down i don't think turning's gonna be a problem though i know it's gonna be fast enough that it'll actually matter you don't think it'll make a difference if we do anything to the front like any like washer spacers anything no it's not gonna be fast enough to matter i don't think it's gonna be fast enough that's my opinion what's the what's gonna be the determining factor if there's no finesse to be had from power power is only going to get you to the wall faster and that's going in the beginning of the video hey this thing's even got a vin number on it really you see that they can make it street legal we can take it to the petty museum and get banned for life it's got a chrysler vin number on stapled to the dashboard right there oh yeah it does i think that's kind of i think that is actually highly illegal whoever did that i don't think you can just like pop rivet the vin number on the car [Applause] oh we're gonna throw a lift plate on here we got double gaskets it's more like this one's like probably burned on there and they didn't feel like scraped it off so they're just like that's just lazy in this second we'll just throw it it's fine i like your shop out here yeah that's nice we got ambient air you know it's a nice old-school vibe wow we used to work on our cars car there's only place to head light and you could watch it what year range was that ninety two three round in there and what kind of cars we had some friend of mine had a dirt lake model we'd ride around and race that thing sometimes when you race two three nights a week you just spend a night for truck wash your car and car wash do everything you have to do go on to the next race i've had to work on some cup cars in parking lots really a couple times what kind of scenario would force that hand one time we were out west and there was like it's like a back-to-back race and we went out and we thought we were going to be tricky and not come back to the shop this was back in the…

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