I pulled the motor out of my car last night and i opted for taking out the motor/trans combo and its a good thing i did. when it was laying on the garage floor i took the bellhousing bolts out and removed the starter and the small bolt behind it and proceeded to pull the tranny off. but it stopped at about 2 inches. it seemed to be hanging up on the throw out bearing or clutch fork. I took the inspection plates off and looked in with a light and couldnt see anything holding it up. i finally got annoyed and took the pressure plate bolts off and let the clutch and pressure plate come off with the trans. is there some trick i am missing here? and btw how big is that flywheel nut? holy crap! i need to get to sears and get a set of huge sockets. well thanks in advance guys for your help

 

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your welcome.

 

Not being a dick but if you had checked you would have seen the fd has a clip ring on the throw bearing, called a release collar. You will need to release it to get the pressure plate off.

 

That gave me a good laugh just reading the title.

 

Ya: Kinda like a love story. I knew dogs had that problem but not trannies.

 

Flywheel nut is 2 and 1/8th inch or 54mm.

 

i cant tell you how many times ive seen similar posts about getting the tranny off an FD xD

 

Same ole **** ....



Later

 

thanks to the helpful replys, sorry to be redundant but i did a search ahead of time and didnt see anything on the topic. that clip is one of the dumbest designs i have ever seen

 

I think it's a clever design... It's a pull clutch. They're all like that. Porsche and others have done this too.