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04-04-2006, 02:40 PM
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Pulling a tranny... the hard way
Photos for your enjoyment: http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y1...emoval/?start=0
The short of the story is as follows: my dad (the old guy in there) and myself (white shirt and no hat) went down to a guy from Full Throttle V6, Bracket Racer's (white shirt, summit hat) place to pull the tranny otu fo the wrecked camaro (Rebuilt 4L60E transmission with carbon fiber and kevlar components and Transgo high performance shift kit with corvette servo) for $10... never having done this we moved in what seemed to be the logical progression, basically moved from the back of the tranny forward in term of getting everything off. Torque arm cracket and exhaust hanger... some electrical plugs... TC shield... then bellhousing bolts. Well the side bolts were cake, the set above that were a little difficult... then the top bolts. All of the tools we had couldn't get it from underneath... didn't have enough extentions to go all the way back... the angle made it impossible for us to fit a wrench of any sockets thru the engine bay. Laset night after I get back to school and all is said and done a friend of mine goes "oh yea if you left the tranny crossmember on then it would have pushed it all forward enough to get the bolts out from up top"... well needless to say that sure as hell pissed me off, but I guess we were too flustered to think of that. So out came the dash... then the crap behind the dash (in between in and the firewall) felt Evan's (Bracket Racer) wrath and was torn out... carpet and insulation was pulled back, and the drill and sawzall (aka, solvesall) came out. some cuts were made and by that time we had lost all light... Evan invited us to stay the night to rest up for the drive home and pulling the tranny, and to wait for daylight. We gladly accepted his hospitality and got working in the morning... some more cutting and labor and it was out. Got all the tools rounded up and sorted out and everything packed up right as it started to rain... and just under 6 hrs later (7 if you count stops and dropping off borrowed tools at Bill's house) we were home in NJ.
 
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Junk the pos, spend the money on beer, acquire headache.
Same result cept this headache doesnt last months.
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Last edited by Savage_Messiah; 04-04-2006 at 02:44 PM.
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04-04-2006, 02:49 PM
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you gotta fix the pic link, it asks to log in
and im glad you got it out. lol and with the crossmember, i dont see how leaving it on would have pushed the motor forward, thats BS.
Last edited by V; 04-04-2006 at 02:51 PM.
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04-04-2006, 03:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LTb1ow
Junk the pos, spend the money on beer, acquire headache.
Same result cept this headache doesnt last months.
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04-04-2006, 03:40 PM
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withouth the crossmember, the engine trans will rotate, making it pretty much impossible to get to the bellhousing bolts from the engine bay.
I can't believe that you didn't take the converter too kasey...
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04-04-2006, 03:40 PM
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No.
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04-04-2006, 03:40 PM
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nope still need to login
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04-04-2006, 03:52 PM
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but you could still jack the back of the trans up to try reach the bolts through the engine compartment.
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04-04-2006, 04:59 PM
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this is is why I love that manual trannys seperate from the bellhousing...... I like to use the swivel sockets with a lot of extensions to get up in there. (not a socket and universal, but the ones that have the socket head build into the universial)
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04-05-2006, 03:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LTb1ow
Junk the pos, spend the money on beer, acquire headache.
Same result cept this headache doesnt last months.
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04-05-2006, 03:50 PM
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By the way, working on gravel SUCKS.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LTb1ow
Junk the pos, spend the money on beer, acquire headache.
Same result cept this headache doesnt last months.
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04-05-2006, 04:24 PM
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By the way, working on gravel SUCKS.
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true that, i pulled a rear in the dirt one time (couldnt move the car and someone was comming to pick it up). Scary part is when the jack started sinking a little.
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04-05-2006, 07:39 PM
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I deal with my car in the gravel all the time..Im almost finished and all it took was plywood under the car..
why didnt he take the cross member out and jack the car up high.....and let the trranny rest on a jack when you have the bolts from the top out............
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04-05-2006, 08:52 PM
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lol thats ****in hilarious... you are offically on Nik and Al's level of pulling auto trannys
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04-05-2006, 10:46 PM
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Brilliant! 
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04-05-2006, 11:03 PM
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so kasey are you gonna cut a trap door in your trans tunnel when you go to pull your transmission?
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04-06-2006, 12:07 AM
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damn you really went all out with that sawzall! 
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04-06-2006, 04:13 AM
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Lol no trap door in my car... that one as yu can see was totally totalled anyway so it was just easier and a lot more fun lol
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LTb1ow
Junk the pos, spend the money on beer, acquire headache.
Same result cept this headache doesnt last months.
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04-06-2006, 09:14 AM
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I saw the pics and thought you crashed your car again :jk: Nice work!
~Ted
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