has anyone here ever changed their own tranny here?

[Vendor Defendor]

well, the guy that was going to help me change my tranny isnt availbe to help me do it. so i figure i would do it the hard way, on my back and a foot off the ground.

i was wondernig if anyone here has done it themselves and can give me some pointers into doing this by my self?

hopfully it wont be too hard, my friend is letting me borrow his tranny jack.. so hopfully that will make life a little easier.

thanks in advance

-Neil

[Low Budget]

You're gonna need some really long extensions for the drivers side top and second from the top bell housing bolts. That's the worst of it in my opinion. You'll need a swivel for the extension also.

You'll also need to jack the back of the engine so it doesn't try to drop as you pull the trans back off of it too.

Good luck with the cross member. Darn bolts on mine were ugly tight.

[d0n_3d]

i took out my tranny and put it back in all by myself just a few months ago...that was my first time ever doing a tranny...it wasn't hard at all...check this link out

http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/tran...trannyout.html

follow that page step by step man...it made everything easy for me...i just used a big floor jack to bring my tranny down and put it back up...helps to have another person hold the tranny still while you lower it down and put it back up...

[salvageV6]

Soak all the bolts with PB Blaster for 2 days before you do it.

Ground strap on the drivers side upper tranny bolt, don't rip it out and make sure you put it back on.

Don't forget the dipstick and cooler lines and shifter linkage, remember how all that is in place so you don't forget it.

I'd save up the $200 for the R+R myself.

[ITSAV6]

Get 4 jack stands! If no stands jack the car up and put some old wheels under all your wheels. It will hold up the car and not let it roll on you. Tranny jack is a good thing but you will probably have to get jack out from under tranny to have enough clearance to pull tranny out.

[bob86gn]

I have done mine twice. Get a good tranny cradle for your jack and try to get the car up as high as possible and close to level if possible. Coming out is easy but the install is tough trying to line up the dowel pins. Get a bolt in fast and it is down hill from there. Make sure the converter is installed right and spins freely before you put all of the bellhousing bolts in.

[taz]

I installed mine for the fifth time about a month ago, and my rebuilder showed me a little trick to assure the converter stays seated on install. He ran some mechanics wire through the gap behind the boss where the bolts thread into the converter(for stock D5, don't know about other converters), and ran it through one of the lower converter shield bolt holes on the tranny. After installation of the tranny I just cut the wire and removed it.
A simple, yet effective little tip.

[p.dow]

extra set of hands and eyes is always good.
you can doit alone though.
take extra precautions like already mentioned.
avoid the car or trans falling on you.
keep motor aligned.
make sure converter is well seated prior to reattaching trans to motor (that wire trick is a good one).
if you dont have good resource manuals/books , take notation of how everything goes. you wont regret it later.

paul
beentheredonethat

[Vendor Defendor]

well, my dad and i got the transmisson out today, it wasnt that bad, but it was time consuming. i had to use some of the parts of the old tranny, and that took a little longer than i was anticapating. but hey, what can you do, when we started getting the new tranny in, i slid the converter on, but couldnt decided if it was on right, i figuered it had to be, but just didnt seem right (i will explain a little better a little furter on...)

but then as we were lining up the tranny, we were pushing the tranny up, and it fell off the tranny jack... ah **** i thought... i dont know if any damage was caused, i sure as hell hope not, it took a dive from about a foot up? damage likely?

so we ran out of day light so i figure i would have to give up for the day.... i will try and resume tomorrow.

about the converter... i think i had it all the way on, but wasnt sure, i couldnt get my fingers in anywhere around the converter, and if it could go in further, it couldnt go far, because it looked like it was pretty close to the bell housing. the only reason why i question it being not all the way in is because i could still wiggle it around in there, so thats the only reason why i dont think it was all they way in... but it could have been....

anyways... thanks for the help... hopfully it wont be so bad getting the thing in... i hope that thing works.. its the first tranny i built... took me like a dozen times to get it together correctly and have no extra pieces... but i finally got it back together.

thanks again..

-Neil

[Low Budget]

I hope you didn't leave the convertor hanging on the input shaft till you get back at the install. Tough on the front seal. I learned that the hard way. You may want to consider putting another new seal in if you left the convertor hanging.

[p.dow]

ought to be only about 1/4 " or so space there.
avoid wrecking the pump vane assembly by makeing sure it is well seated to the hilt and make sure when you secure trans to block that it is still in proper position.

paul