OK I got my clutch in and everything all hooked up, EXCEPT the damn tranny. We get it in, and get it about 1/2 to 1/4 inch away from the bell housing and bam....the damn thing wont budge. We cant get the two pins that are in the tranny to line up to the bellhousing. We worked on it for like an hour and a half and then the shop closed so we had to leave and now I am paying over night fees for my car to sit and rot on a damn lift. PLEASE someone got any tricks or good info to help me get this thing in and get my car moving again? Thanks people!

Mike

 

Are you sure the end of the input shaft is lined up to the pilot bearing and the splines are meshed well? If everything looks like it's together right but you can't make it that last fraction of an inch, you can use to pull the tranny together. Just remember to use a star pattern and if anything starts to get tight you need to back off. It should be very easy to get it to go together with bolts and a wrench/ratchet. If your pins are way off, then you're going to have to try something else, they're there to make it easier to line everything up correctly. If you get it in at an angle you'll mess up your input shaft or else one of the bearings it touches...

 

When you pop your clutch alignment tool in your clutch, make sure that tool is all the way in your pilot bearing before tightening things down. I ran into the same kind of problem. It looked like the alignment tool was in all the way, but it wasn't. That last half to 3/4 of an inch nub on the alignment tool wasn't in the pilot bearing. So when I went to slide the tranny in, the input shaft would just stop at the pilot bearing and not go in cause it wasn't aligned. I figured it out when I pulled the tranny out from under the car and popped my head up and looked right through the center of the clutch disks. It was obvious the disks weren't lined up with the pilot bearing hole. Loosened the clutch up, then made sure the alignment tool wen't all the way in the pilot bearing. We screwed with trying to get that tranny in for about 45 minutes. Then when I found that and realigned, the tranny slid in in about 5 seconds. Then I rolled out from under the car and began to celebrate.

Ken R.

 

I couldn't have said it better myself...

Chris

 

Another thing that might help is to bolt the bellhousing up seperately and then bolt the tranny up to that. I always slid it up as one unit, but sometimes I would fight it for hours. One of my friends told me he always does it as two pieces and it always slides right in. Now I know.