Clutch swap - Wednesday night

Take a look at my comment on that clutch swap thread, the input shaft bearing retainer needs an oil seal. It's cheap but there's no reference to the seal in the writeup. Also, the input shaft bearing retainer has RTV between it and the tranny itself. You'll need to lay a bead down or you'll get a tranny fluid leak.

My swap is nearly done, got stuck installing the tranny. A few things I ran into:

The instructions say that the engine will tilt when you remove the tranny. This is true. It will tilt BACKWARDS, so support the lower part of the oil pan with a jack stand and a block of wood.

I separated the bellhousing from the tranny. The tranny itself is pretty light, but I found it wouldn't balance easily on a standard jack. It's also a lot heavier than it seems if you can't get at just the right angle. If you have a buddy to help, you should be fine.

I found my tranny got stuck on the throwout bearing and clutch fork when uninstalling. This combined with the jack problems I mentioned above made it really difficult to pull the tranny out.

The instructions at the link Hissin gave does say this, but it bears repeating: when reinstalling the tranny, do NOT drag the tranny back in by its bolts. All the parts will sit flush when properly installed, the bolts will then hold it all in place. When a buddy and I reinstalled my T5, it got stuck on something and left a 1/4" gap between the tranny and the bellhousing. We had to twist and wiggle the tranny until it finally slid in that last 1/4" and was flush with the bellhousing.