I concur with Larry. My wife assisted me in pulling my tranny and
subsequently putting it back in. Getting the splines to line up was in
fact a real b**ch. That was the only real difficult part however.
Mike (slightly out of shape 30 something as well)
79 Spit
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Lawrence G Miceli wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:41:08 -0400 (EDT) JCBOUCHARD@aol.com writes:
> >After several days of listening to my car sound like 10 screaming
> >chickens
> >evry time I push the clutch in, I sought advice and was told I needed
> >a new
> >throw out bearing. I decided to replace the whole clutch while I'm in
> >there.
> > I've got the whole thing torn apart and ready to come out but don't
> >want it
> >to end up on the floor. Is there any hope of a semi-out of shape 30
> >something manually lifting the tranny out of the car or do I need a
> >hoist?
> > How much does the transmission weigh? Help would be appreciated.
> >
> I have had the "pleasure" of taking the trans out several times for
> various reasons and it is not so heavy that you would need a hoist. If
> it's an o/d unit a little help from another semi-out of shape 30
> something helper would be good and the non o/d unit is really not so bad
> if doing the job alone. Now, putting it back in is another story. I have
> found that an o/d box requires two people to move the box around until
> the splines line up. Good luck.
>
> Larry Miceli
> '76 TR6
> '73 Stag
> '66 Herald
>
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