Clutch install Q

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  1. silver03
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    94 legacy L awd. Drop tranny or slide motor forward? Thanks
     
  2. Terry Ammerman
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    Pull the engine. Pretty easy.
     
  3. mke723
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    dropping the tranny is easy, remove exhaust, drop propshaft (drive shaft), undo shift linkage, then trans to motor bolts, then trans support... only takes 90 or so mins. (with air tools)
     
  4. SeanKelly
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    Any way you go about it, its a pain in the butt.
     
  5. silver03
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    Re: dropping tranny. Front cv axles need to be pulled...correct?
     
  6. kvang
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    ^NO^
     
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    I agree with the above. For a clutch change just pull the tranny back and leave the front axles connected. You should have just enough room to get a clutch in/out.
     
  8. GiMp
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    Kvang does tranny swaps at BIR he would know :)
     
  9. silver03
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    How can this be?
     
  10. idget
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    there's enough slack in the axles that you can move the trans about a foot rearward
     
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    Axles still installed:

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    I was committed to this^^ for an hour...and than pulling the engine seemed much easier (no hoist). So, I ended up pulling the motor.
     
  13. xluben
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    I've had my tranny separated from the block at least half a dozen times in the last year and I did it all on jack stands. Probably takes an hour to get to that point.
     
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    Soon to be at least half a dozen plus one last?
     
  15. gran0393
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    Yeah I can do a clutch in the garage in about 4 hrs
     
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    sliding the tranny back is really easy