I've seen some complaining about how hard it is to get the 4 twelve point bolts off the driveshaft. Mine were on there good too. I used a swivel head 3/8 wrench-nonratcheting (I used this one because its head size was small, bought it at kragen a while back) I put the wrench on the bolt.. and stuck a jack under the wrench and jacked that sucker. Produced all the torque I needed to get them off. I then proceded to slide out the shaft (very easy for anyone to do, at least on mine) and spilt tranny fluid all over the garage floor.
That was easy! If only I wasn't doing a clutch install
As for the midpipe: The manifold-midpipe bolts were sucky.. had to use a swivel attachment to curve around the cats (like ds u-joints lol) (this attachment came with my 3/8 inch swivel head wrench from kragen)
I ended up having to saw off the smog pump line. I still couldn't remove the midpipe, was very tight and I didnt want to fight it with it. So I put a jack on my transmission and took off the crossmember, then the tranny mount and the thing the exhaust hangers are hooked to. Came out nice and happy then.
Odd thing about smog pump line. I guess its not there to save cats, since it seems like it would only affect the back two, where its hooked up Im not too worried about that line.
I got my tranny out today. Made it fall into a summit racing box full of paper towels I used to clean up my tranny fluid messes. Wasn't sure how heavy it was so the box got punished!
Anyway, I just wanted to try and help anyone whos doing this.. as it has been sucking for me.. good luck people!
That was easy! If only I wasn't doing a clutch install
As for the midpipe: The manifold-midpipe bolts were sucky.. had to use a swivel attachment to curve around the cats (like ds u-joints lol) (this attachment came with my 3/8 inch swivel head wrench from kragen)
I ended up having to saw off the smog pump line. I still couldn't remove the midpipe, was very tight and I didnt want to fight it with it. So I put a jack on my transmission and took off the crossmember, then the tranny mount and the thing the exhaust hangers are hooked to. Came out nice and happy then.
Odd thing about smog pump line. I guess its not there to save cats, since it seems like it would only affect the back two, where its hooked up Im not too worried about that line.
I got my tranny out today. Made it fall into a summit racing box full of paper towels I used to clean up my tranny fluid messes. Wasn't sure how heavy it was so the box got punished!
Anyway, I just wanted to try and help anyone whos doing this.. as it has been sucking for me.. good luck people!