Installing new clutch and rear main seal

savegoodautonfg · Nov 15, 2007

i'm looking for a good mechanic that does work on the side somewhere around where i live for a decent price.

I'm in Rockland County New York. my city is garnerville. I'm willing to drive up to like 45min-1hr away from here.

Please anyone let me know.

Darkwriter77 · Nov 15, 2007

This is Tech?

kube311 · Nov 15, 2007

what are u trying to do just the clutch and the seal?

jake2582 · Nov 15, 2007

bring it to ga and ill hook ya up! o you said one hour i thought u said one day away.lol

savegoodautonfg · Nov 15, 2007

kube311 said:
what are u trying to do just the clutch and the seal?

Yea right now i got the king cobra and the teflon fel pro rear main seal.

canesstangnitro · Nov 15, 2007

it's not that hard. I had never worked on a car before and I changed my clutch. I paid a guy 100 dollars to stand there and tell me what to do. lol. I did mine in the rain with the car on jackstands. If you have never done it before, have someone help you. also, make sure they resurface your flywheel. some cheap places might not even worry about that. it is very important. I would change your pilot bearing while you are in there too

BlownFiveLiter · Nov 16, 2007

Do it yourself. There's a writeup by 5spd GT in the technical thread sticky in 94-95, or in the link in his signature. I thought it was in the one over here, but I guess I'll have to pester Daggar to add a link for it.

savegoodautonfg · Nov 16, 2007

I'd rather not screw with the clutch..

i got a buddy to do itwith but its on the ground he always did them on a lift. how much harder is it to do it on the ground? any techniques to get it up higher in the air.

kube311 · Nov 16, 2007

its not too bad on the ground u just have to put it up on jack stands as high as u can to make it a lil easier. i did one by myself on my friends car i had a plate welded to a jack so i had something to lay it on and help me get it up and down

Fast63 · Nov 16, 2007

if I don't have access to a lift, I like to put stacks of 2x4's under my tires so the car sits another foot and a half or so off the ground. The hardest part is going to be taking the transmission out and putting it back in. Replacing the seal and the clutch are both cake-walk jobs.

BlownFiveLiter · Nov 16, 2007

I disagree. The hardest part is getting the H-pipe off if it's been on a while and the bolts are rusty. The trans itself weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 80lbs, so it's not bad to bench press it back up into place. Having a buddy get the trans-to-bellhousing bolts started is always nice, but I've never done a T5 R&R with help. Just get the car as high as possible at all four corners. Get it high enough that you can sit Indian style under the trans tunnel. It makes the clutch job easier.

Fast63 · Nov 16, 2007

StangGT1995 said:
I disagree. The hardest part is getting the H-pipe off if it's been on a while and the bolts are rusty.

Rust? What is rust? I live in California

savegoodautonfg · Nov 17, 2007

you mean like take 2x4's, jack the car up then put the 2x4's under all 4 tires and then let the car down and then jack it up more or what?

Jaswir · Nov 17, 2007

savegoodautonfg said:
I'd rather not screw with the clutch..

i got a buddy to do itwith but its on the ground he always did them on a lift. how much harder is it to do it on the ground? any techniques to get it up higher in the air.

i was scared myself when i did it for the first time... its alot easyer then it seems! I would compare it to changing brake pads... not hard at ALL!!

Fast63 · Nov 17, 2007

savegoodautonfg said:
you mean like take 2x4's, jack the car up then put the 2x4's under all 4 tires and then let the car down and then jack it up more or what?

get a bunch of 2x4's, I stack them side by side so it's 2 2x4's wide in order to we as wide as your tread patch or close to it. Jack up the front or rear and stack them as high as you want underneath all 4 tires. You don't have to jack up the car anymore after each tire is sitting on 6 or 8 2x4's high. You'll have a lot of room. It's like the car is sitting normally, but just high up in the air. It is also nice because you won't have jacks and stands in your way when you're trying to work underneath. Just make sure you set the E-brake and block the wheels so it won't roll anywhere, and only do it on level ground.

SuperStang83 · Nov 17, 2007

I would just stick with jack stands man! That 2x4 idea is backwoods and crazy!

h8my408 · Nov 17, 2007

i did a backwoods motor swap! my car is faster than yours!

GT_Rich · Nov 17, 2007

Nothing wrong with 2x4's. I built the ramp / block set pictured below just for the stang. The ramps are nice and long so that I can pull it up on there without anything bottoming out (mine is lowered). Then, the ramps are removable from the blocks, so I can get a jack under the rear axle and jack up the back of the car and put jackstands under the axle.

Fast63 · Nov 17, 2007

that is an awesome setup GT_Rich.... can you send me the building plans? LOL

savegoodautonfg · Nov 20, 2007

Yea i wouldnt mind the building plans neither.

one of my buddys was gonna do it for 200 dolalrs and now he cant cause someting came up and now my usual mechanic wants 500 to change it.

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