Mike_InMT

To start, I bought the Z 2 weeks ago knowing it had a vibration that I highly suspected was a warped flywheel. I was able to get the car for cheap enough to justify buying it in that condition.

Since the budget was tight, I ended up just going with an OEM replacement I found on eBay for $313 including flywheel.

Yesterday was the day I took the car to my mechanic. He let me help which saved me $150 in labor and made the project doable in 9 hours - 4 of which were removing the trany from the bell housing, and then the bellhousing from the block.

After we got the old clutch out, the carnage was astounding.... http://www.redlineenterprises.com/te...h/flywheel.jpg
http://www.redlineenterprises.com/te...wheelclose.jpg
http://www.redlineenterprises.com/te...ssureplate.jpg
http://www.redlineenterprises.com/te...plateclose.jpg
http://www.redlineenterprises.com/te...holeclutch.jpg

The flywheel was so badly warped that when I laid it on the concrete, I could rock it back and forth about 1/16" each direction. I could put one hand on each side and make it go 'tink tink tink tink" on the concrete!

While I was under there I did the $0.20 Radio-Shack Skip Shift elimination. (Well, I ended up doing the mod to the reverse-lockout solenoid and not realizing it until the car was all back together. OOPS! - so I fixed it this morning in my apt. parking lot.)

Now the car is smooth as silk! I just have to baby it for the next 480 miles - and wouldnt you know in the last 20 miles I've had more rice rev at me than in the previous 2 weeks I've owned it. Murphey's Law at it's finest.....

firepheasent

4 hours to Remove the transmission and bellhousing

I can have it all pulled out in under a hour doing it in my drive way on my back. I can the entire job done in under 3 hrs.

Was it the mechanics first time removing a RWD tranny??

Not trying to bash anybody but it seems you caused yourself some time and money that was unneeded.

Mike_InMT

It was his first Camaro, yes, and one of his first RWD. Plus the dowel pins on the bellhousing didn't wanna let loose for anything, even with 3 of us (he, myself, and a friend of his) reaming on, prying on, pulling on and cussing at it. He wasn't a fully experienced mechanic which is why he got paid $20/hr instead of $56 like an experienced mechanic with a lift & tranny jack would have got paid.

Plus I learned alot by him letting me help too, which is worth the extra time to me.