engine and drivetrain How To Use A Mid-Rise Scissors Lift To Install/remove A Trani

[thehackmechanic]

I figured it out. I thought I'd figured it out years ago, but this method is much better.You need a scissors lift table, four milk crates, a 4' x 2' board, and a 2x4 to cut up. It's trivial. It's brilliant. I've had my one "eureka moment" that will need to last me another 55 years.

 

I may recreate the post here, but I have the photographs all embedded nice and pretty in my blog.

 

http://thehackmechanic.blogspot.com/2013/11/removing-installinga-transmission-using.html

 

 

[Mike Self]

You've never lived 'till you've slid under your car on a creeper with the tranny on your stomach, then pressed it upwards, holding it whle starting the bolts!  I did that once (and only once) with the transaxle on my Renault 4CV...fortunatelly I didn't drop it on my stomach while attaching it to the engine block studs!  You do dumb things when you're younger (and sometime when you're older too).

 

mike

Edited November 7, 2013 by mike

[thehackmechanic]

Been there. Done that. Done doing that. 

 

Jim Rowe from Metric Mechanic perfectly described "the position" -- transmission on your chest, practically crushing your family jewels, then both hands on the back end, both feet on the lip of the bell housing, press upward with hands and feet like you're climbing a pole, thock it into place, one hand holding the back up, one hand screwing in bell housing bolts.

[mfbanres]

You've never lived 'till you've slid under your car on a creeper with the tranny on your stomach, then pressed it upwards, holding it whle starting the bolts!  I did that once (and only once) with the transaxle on my Renault 4CV...fortunatelly I didn't drop it on my stomach while attaching it to the engine block studs!  You do dumb things when you're younger (and sometime when you're older too).

 

mike

Yea, man...in the driveway, in December, car sitting on blocks of wood.  But that was the 70's when my friends and neighbors could not even spell BMW.

 

On the other hand, a clutch job in the TR6 was pretty easy because the tranny comes out the top....remove seats and console, and there it is!

 

Cheers!

Michael

[jgerock]

LOL -.   Cold garage floor,  uncooperative creeper, December...