lining up converter to flex plate - how?

[lee]

I am in the middle of swapping out my transaxle following Alldata - you know - where installation is simply the reverse of disassembly. Anyway, everthing came apart OK, and it all went back together OK - until it was time to bolt back together the torque converter and the flex plate.

Apparently my attempt to eyeball a match before I pushed the transaxle up to the engine sucked - it's off by maybe an inch.

Anybody have an idea of how to spin the converter?

If not, where did I most likely go wrong, and ideas of how far I have to backtrack?

Try putting a Socket with a like breaker bar on the front of the crank of the engine to hold it from turning over and then try to spin the torque converter by a pry bar or however you can think too....Thats how ive always done it but i havnt on subaru yet.. Probably no help but worth a shot....l8ter

[lee]

Trouble is there's no place to put a pry bar on the convertor. At the bottom, the steering rack is in the way; at the starter, there's no place to gain leverage; and at the place where you bolt them together, can't get to the teeth.

Unless somebody comes up with an idea, I'll try tomorrow to back off the bolts and push the tranny back without pulling it all apart. Maybe that will let me get to the teeth to turn it.

Keeping my fingers crossed, REALLY don't want to pull it out again.

[Stevebsy]

Whoa!! If you can't spin the TC freely when it is mated to the engine, you don't have the TC seated correctly. Back off those bolts right now! You should be able to spin the engine using the main crank bolt (22mm socket) without spinning the TC when the cases are mated.

Don't ask me how I know this

[lee]

THANKS, it really wasn't all that tight, just enough friction between them that I just couldn't turn it by my fingers through the starter hole.

backed off the engine/tranny bolts 1/4" and was able to get it to spin to the right spot.