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<x-flowed>Just to butt in here.... Sears has a motorcycle jack(1200lb cap.) that works perfectly!.Nice,wide stance with rubber pads that fit the oil sump as if made for it.It comes with straps that tighten,good swivel wheels and a bottle jack to lift. -- David V.Nelson Darkside ' 69 VW Fastback '86 GW '93 Firehawk '90 Escort rmcevoy1@NOSPAMtwcny.rr.com davidvnelson@hotmail.com
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:14, Greg Merritt wrote:Folks,
I should have some time to reinstall my rebuilt automatic transmission this weekend. (Big thanks to Ron's Transaxles in San Pablo, CA.)
I'm inclined to mate the engine and transmission on the ground before lifting the whole drivetrain back into the car. It seems to me that this would make it easier to line things up and get everything together smoothly. I always have to fidget a lot with position and angle on my MT cars when I reinstall the engine, so it seems like putting the engine & tranny together on the ground would give more flexibility.
Jim, you previously mentioned that you install the AT first, and then follow with the engine. Jim -- or anyone -- what are the advantages of installing them one at a time?
I have done it both ways. It depends on the stability of your jack with that much weight on it. I have a real transmission jack with a wide base, that will lift over 700 lbs. Balancing that much weight on an narrower floor jack could be tricky. BE SURE you have some help, that understands what you are doing, and can take some of the weight if things start to go wrong. If you try it, I would suggest, that you get a couple 10mm studs, slightly longer than the original bolts that go there, and put them in the bottom holes of the tranny mount, as pilots. They need to be longer than the bolts that came out of there. After everything is in place, and the other to bolts are tight, you can take them out with pliers. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org
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