If you’ve seen our Junkyard Dog series, you’ll remember that one of the engines was a 5.7L Hemi with a 6.1L crank swap that we assembled over at Joe Jill’s Superior Automotive in Placentia, California. The crank didn’t net us any more cubic inches, but it is a factory forging making it stronger than the 5.7L version. And for $100 for two of them on eBay, we couldn’t pass it up.
We are putting this engine into a 1971 Dodge Challenger with an A518 transmission. In order to get the torque converter to fit in the crank flange, we had to remove the factory bushing used for SRT8 torque converters.
This is a 1-inch concrete stud anchor that we used to pull the bushing. Any 1-inch nut and bolt will work, but they were doing construction next door.
We tack-welded the 1-inch nut to the inside of the bushing using a MIG welder.
We tack-welded another nut to the shaft of the anchor then threaded the bolt into the nut welded to the bushing, forcing it out.
Simple.
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