DrHeckley

This is the first time I've done a clutch job on my prelude, and I followed the directions down to a T in the book. If not more. Where it said remove radius rod and strut fork, I removed anything and everything from the tire well, etc. Dropped the four bolts from the rear mount, and removed the tranny mount entirely, and I'm having big issues getting the transmission back into the car. Getting it off was a huge hassle, because my throwout bearing exploded, and sent inch long shards through everything, jamming everything up. So I'm not EXACTLY sure how we got it out, lots of prying, and about 52 points of rotation. Ending up with it pretty much dropping from the front subframe off the jack to the ground.

It seems like every time I try to get it up in there, either the shaft catches on the pressure plate, the part where the starter sits hits the front sub frame, the left hits the rear, or the tranny mount studs or the gear shift get caught in the tire well.

Would it be easier to drop both the front and rear motor mounts, let the whole engine sag, zip the tranny on, and lift it all up as one? Or is there some easier way about positioning this SOAB back in there without solving a rubix cube to do it? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Kronis

^ If you have a cherry picker, use that to hold it up. When my buddy and I did mine like that, as in, removing the tranny by itself, it took HOURS because of how much of a PITA it was. That's what we did and it was much easier. Just gotta keep trying.


Next time, pull the whole motor. It's 10 times easier.

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'92 Prelude Si