1987 tII

in the midst of changing out a boken diff mount, trying to drop the front end of the subframe a bit to make it easier.

car is in the air with stands on the pinch. I have the catback removed, the two big nuts off of the front of the subframe, and the little 'ears' that come off with them. the subframe dropped about a half inch when i lowered the jack but that was it.

am I missing something that needs to be removed? (ie... driveshaft!?)

thanks guys

 

pretty sure there are 4 nuts or 2 bolts 2 nuts that hold the cradle to the unibody. if you got just the rears it would drop about that much.

 

wel I took off the two forward nuts, and it dropped, just not as much as I was hoping for. like 1/2 of an inch. just need to know if I have to take out the driveshaft or not

 

sorry thought you were talking about the front subframe

 

might have to drop the struts they should be close to fully extended with the car off the ground

 

You can take the two bolt at the bottom of the struts - and watch your head!

 

There's also a vertical link that runs from the back of th e subframe up to the body. Remove it and the shocks, and put a jack under the nose of the diff to prevent being crushed. Also loosen the diff mounting bolts.

 

does the drive shaft need to come out?

man work load just went up a lot... is it possible to do the job without droppin the subframe?

 

im heavin a hell of a time sliding the bolt out of thebotom of the link. is there some trick to it or do I just need a bigger hammer

 

probably too much weight on it jack the subframe up a little and it should come out nice and easy.

 

Yeah, if you're trying to take out the rear differential you're gonna have to pull out the driveshaft. I wrote an in depth walkthrough on removing it, I'll post a link in a minute.

https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-specific-1986-1992-17/walkthrough-na-differential-removal-522066/

That might help. Read the whole thread. A bunch of others chime and point out some **** I didn't write about.