starting it tomorrow anything helpful i should know or need in advance or is it pretty simple? looks simple. thanks for any advice

 

1) Support it properly, use a tranny jack
2) Make sure the car is lifted enough to take it out on the jack with the bellhousing attached. Ask how I know :o)
3) Expect oil leaking out of every orifice in the tranny.
4) Don't bang up any of the sensors on the extension housing. The wiring is very easy to damage, and the sensors are $35/ea.
5) Read up on fd3s.net and other sites for procedures on dropping the tranny.

Dave

 

What are you doing? Installing a new clutch, flywheel, rebuilding the tranny?

Depending on what you are doing, you might want to drain the fluid first. After that, it's pretty straight forward:

1. Disconnect the battery and the starter
2. Remove the under braces and trays
3. Remove the midpipe/cat
4. Remove the drive shaft
5. Remove the PPF bolts on the tranny side
6. Remove the starter
7. Unbolt the slave cylinder and the tranny wiring connections
8. Open inspection plate and separate the throw-out bearing from the pressure plate
9. Unbolt the tranny
10. Support and remove the tranny

I might have missed part or two, but that's the jist of it.

Now, the upper bolts on the bellhousing can be a pain to remove from under the car depending on what tools you have. I usually take the extra 5 minutes and remove the UIM. That allows me easy access from above on the top two bolts.

 

Zach Keller showed me how to use a flex-head socket on a really long extension. It works really well and is a lot easier for those of us with UIMs loaded with all the stock accessories.

Dave

 

Yep, that's why I said depending on what tools are available.

 

Its pretty esay, Mahjik covered it well like always but you can always find the shop manual online and print out the pages on removing the tranny.

 

oh i'm either rebuilding or buying another tranny i have no idea what the hell happened to mine it just took a crap while i was driving and i wasnt even racing it.