I wrapped up night two. I have to work at night because my dad doesn't get off till late. So far we've invested about five hours and have the transmission suspended is on the jack. Can't quite seem to get it out all the way. We're gonna pick up a tranny jack in the morning to ease things along.


Casualty 1:
Universal Joint. Busted trying to crack the top center bolt on bell housing. The joint's easily older than me. I'm 20 by the way.




Casualty 2:
My digestive system. It was one bomb Chorizo burrito, but damn, it'll come out with a rage of furry. Oh, and the red stuff, it's not hot suace It came straight from the burrito. That's how you know it's good stuff.

 

So it's gonna be ready and you're gonna wheel with Joey and I tomorrow right?

Good luck.

 

ha, I wish. It would seem the time God's are against me. We're waking up at eightish to get the jack, but my sister has a softball tournament at one. So, if we can get the tranny out, install the new clutch and reassemble everything in three hours then maybe I'll get out. But that's doubtful...

 

That burrito looks like it's seen better days, but it could be worse for it... a lot worse

Good luck with the clutch, mine is all screwed up, and I don't know what I'm doing, so I won't touch it.

 

ya hafta use 1/2 drive stuff on the top bolts

Use a looong 1/2 drive extension and a breaker bar. The bar comes up through the tranny tunnel and you work it from the inside (the andle is less steep that way)

Me guesses that if its a 22RE and W56 tranny you forgot about the "backwards" bolt thats over where the exhaust crosses near the bell housing on the drivers side

 

he has a 3.0 hence his sig.

Good luck with the rest of the install, the tranny is a heavy som beech!

remember to break in the clutch properly.

 

What's the procedure to break in a clutch? Didn't know there was one!

 

I think its around 500 miles.

No full throttle, don't go over 3,000rpm, just baby it.

 

Sounds similar to a new gear/locker break in.

 

I have another casualty to add to the list...

I dented the dust shield on the new pilot bearing while trying to tap it in. This is why I like rubber shields...



Can you tell my clutch got a little hot a couple of times?





And one last thing. Once the crossmember was out, I saw that it seemed something fell off. There's an extra piece bolted to the bottom, on the right. It appears there was once a piece on the other side too. Anything to concern myself with?







And My favorite shot so far. Out with the old and in with the new.

 

I feel your pain - doing a clutch on my rig now too.

OMG what a PITA!

 

Try doing it on the driveway, in the rain, with just a floor jack

 

At least it's in the garage and I have another car to drive if I have to...

 

Ditto for me. But I sure do miss driving my truck... For now I get to drive the 90 Camry.

 

So, I spent ALL day trying to grind through the pilot bearing to get it out, but finally got it out and the new one and flywheel installed, so I can install the clutch and tranny tomorrow .... yeesh

 

Nice. My PB came out with relative ease. Packed with grease, pounded and repeat. Popped out no problem. The issue was putting the new one in.

 

I broke two pilot bearing pullers, didn't remember the grease trick til too late.

To put back in, I used a socket (22mm IIRC) that fit perfectly over the outer race and tapped it in.

 

ooo 22mm. I was gonna shred the old bearing and just use that outer race to tap it in. My problem was using the enitre bearing instead of just hitting the outer race.

Oh well, $22 mistake.

 

Yea, really!!!! If i had all those luxury's of a concrete floor, I wouldn't know how to act.. I think i told this before but me and a buddy put a tranny back in on a 40 degree day laying in 6 inches of water!!!! That was the roughest 1 for me!

 

Same here, except my new one went in very easily. The entire pilot bearing job, from removal to replacement, took less than ten minutes.

The clutch job itself, with delays, took almost three weeks.....but that's not my fault.