Ok so i just got a new clutch, if i start at 7:30am and get off the tranny and flywheel by 9 or 10, send it out to get done, how long does that usually take? Then get it back and put it on, I think it can be done. What do u think ?

 

yea you can do it in one day....

 

do u have an impact gun to remove the flywheel bolt? clutch alignment tool? lotsa extenstions and flexible joints

if the FW isn't too bad.. u can re-use it without re-facing (seen it done many times)

basically if u have proper tools proper maybe a pit.. and a friend to help u can get it done...


personally i find taking my engine and tranny out on changing it on the ground easier and faster...

 

Easily 1 day if you have never done it before, I would say about 4 hrs tops for those have done it 2-3 times now.

 

Here is a tip, drain out all the gear oil the night before. One of the worst smelling things ever and you dont want it dripping all over wrestling the tranny out. A tranny jack does help, especially when you go to reinstall the tranny

 

Yes, this is very possible. I'd reccomend breaking loose the bolts on the tranny housing that connect it to the engine the night before though. They can be a pain sometimes.

 

very easily done........ heres a few tips....

-if you've never done a clutch before, make sure you read a how to do it first...there are alot of things that are sometimes overlooked.....

-when tightening the clutch/pressure plate, make sure to slowly tighen them in a star pattern, much like tightening lugnuts.....

-make sure to fill the shifter assembly w/ gear oil when finishing the job, this is usually over looked

ive done clutches in as little as 2 1/2 hours (w/ 3 peoples help)...by myself, it took me 5 hours (mainly due to reinstalling the damn tranny)

 

Definately do that. It really does smell nasty and is apain to get up.

 

Its possiable, ive seen tranny swaps done in a day. Auto to 5speed. Just make sure you have everything you need with you at the time of doing it. All the parts you may need like washers extra bolts, oil, jacks and all the tools and stuff before you get started so you rnot looking around for it in the middle of the thing.

 

ive seen it done from 11 at night to 4 in the morning ....outside in the driveway before.....thanks acidshock

 

Dude, that job can take less then 4 hours, easy. Problem is, you better trust your maching company on that flywheel. IIRC the TII fly is stepped.

 

ok so thanks for everyones comments, ok yes i will have a tranny jack and this will be done at a shop, to a lift and tools all over. Anyone wanna come help out ???

 

Where are you? If you are in the south florida area, I will come by, I just pulled mine apart, it's pretty easy.

 

I did this in August. It took me somewhere around 10-12 hours. Most of that time went into stupid **** that I didn't think of before trying to pull the tranny out.

Problems:
1. Had to drop the exhaust to get the drive shaft out.
2. Don't forget to disconnect that Slave Cylinder!!
3. Shimmying the tranny out was a son of a bitch!
4. I was doing it in the middle of a city alley, cops didn't like all the tranny oil
5. What was said above, drain the tranny before hand. Nothing like a shitload of goo spilling out on you while your pulling the tranny out/putting it in.
6. Bench pressing the tranny in was a bitch, my kit didn't have an alignment tool in it, It took 2 hours trying to get that bitch to slide in before it finally did.

 

oh yeah forgot my loc says drift land, I'm in socal eagle rock area inbetween pasadena and glendale. Demonic, word ****** doin it in an alley, mobil gas station for me and i'll have a tranny jack

 

bump any one for this sat at 8 am ??

 

What's the capacity for the gear shifter in an S5???

 

took me an hour to put my clutch in... and thats becuase it was hot as hell in the summer and we were lazy... taking breaks to get some ice cold sweet tea and food and messing around. and all i had was a floor jack and 2 jack stands... it was a tight *** squeeze under the car and it was a bitch for the both of us to bench press that tranny up especially when you have to hold it up and jiggle it and push and twist it to finally get it to slide in... and now my tranny is about to go cuase its a piece...

 

That's about how mine went. I used to write up so I knew, in theory, what to do. However, this was literally the first thing I did to my car after getting it. Previously, my only experience "working" on a car was putting in more washer fluid. Talk about a crash course...

Make sure to mark which bolt came out of which hole in reference to the transmission to engine bolts. One of them is a different thread (no clue why) so you don't want to put that one in the wrong spot.

That pretty much goes for everything. Personally, when I took a removable part off (ex. bolt), I seperated them into ziplock bags and labeled them accordingly.

I had to get someone to push on my engine a bit to get the tranny back in. Since the tranny "weighs down" the engine somewhat, the angle is different. Maybe that's the wrong way to do it... but that's how I did it.

In case you can't use the tranny jack and stuff, here's a tip involving the bench pressing part. I was under the tranny pushing it up and aligning it. The trick I used was to have someone inside my car that had a tie down (rope, whatever) looped around the transmission from above to help me hold it up.

 

So it had been done. I started at 9am and finished at 9pm. The reason it took so long is the shop didnt have a socket that fit the flywheel nut, so i goto autozone...dont have it...goto kragen....dont have it....went to sears...since nobody picked up there ******* cell phones i didnt know what size to get. Now mind you autozone and kragen are 10 min away from eachother. So i get to sears i get one really big socket..went back to mobil which is a 20-30 min drive in glendale(hell), i get there and its 2 sizes too small..**** so i went back. I got the right one. Ok so now you think i'm in the clear right....well i take off the flywheel then to the shop thats 20 mins away, I get there, he tells me that i need a new one cuz i have too many cracks....**** again..So i call Japan2LA, he hooks me up with a FD flywheel for 125. Saves the day helps me put it back on and takes off. Thanks dude. So by now its about 4...and it just goes on and on and on untill 9pm...Thanks to 1984se for helpin me fit the tranny back up and bleeding my clutch. really helped out. So there it is, in a day!

 

All this for a clutch change??? How about pulling the engine out and work comfortably??? Maybe I missed something but if this thread is about a clutch change, you guys do it the hard way... A clutch change only tages about 2 hours if you pull the engine out (that includes pulling the engine and installing it back in)...

 

ok yeah but how are you gonna get the flywheel off ???? with no socket...then you find out you need a new one then it took an hour to get here. I dont know but for me taking out the engine and all that is a lil too much to do for a clutch job. the other factor is that i was on a single piston lift not a rotary life with the posts on the side.

 

Geez... you got it easy, I had to pull the engine out with my cousin, I got the 2 1/8" socket (it is a must if you do your own engine)... Plus the clutch is bolted on to the engine not the tranny... Plus removing the flywheel is not necessary unless it is cracked and it is still easier to do outside the car... It is just my opinion... Why remove the tranny if the clutch is bolted on to the engine??? It is like removing the strut everytime you get a flat tire in order to change it...

 

ummm dont u need to take off the tranny eather way??? But u didnt read what i said...how is not removing the flywheel not necessary when you do a clutch swap...u need to get it spun...but like i said i needed to get a new flywheel cuz mine had cracks and it was old.

 

Last Time I did a clutch, I didnt hook up the drive shaft to the tranny before install. Basically if its full, you bench it up level and have a buddy slide the unhooked (from the diff) drive shaft so the oil does leak. I move around alot under a car during installs of trannys and such and little did I know, the oil was pooling on the heat sheild.


BAM

Redline gear oil shake, down my throat. Had to call poison control. When the EMS arrived:

A) I was still working on the car and didn't wipe the oil off my face

B) They EMS guy says, how do you swallow gear oil?



All In all, its the last clutch job I do. Thats what money is for, to pay someone else to do it.