Pulling a tranny... the hard way

[Savage Messiah]

Photos for your enjoyment: http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y1...emoval/?start=0


The short of the story is as follows: my dad (the old guy in there) and myself (white shirt and no hat) went down to a guy from Full Throttle V6, Bracket Racer's (white shirt, summit hat) place to pull the tranny from his wrecked car (Rebuilt 4L60E transmission with carbon fiber and kevlar components and Transgo high performance shift kit with corvette servo) for $10... never having done this we moved in what seemed to be the logical progression, basically moved from the back of the tranny forward in term of getting everything off. Torque arm cracket and exhaust hanger... some electrical plugs... TC shield... then bellhousing bolts. Well the side bolts were cake, the set above that were a little difficult... then the top bolts. All of the tools we had couldn't get it from underneath... didn't have enough extentions to go all the way back... the angle made it impossible for us to fit a wrench of any sockets thru the engine bay. Last night after I get back to school and all is said and done John goes "oh yea if you left the tranny crossmember on then it would have pushed it all forward enough to get the bolts out from up top"... well needless to say that sure as hell pissed me off, but I guess we were too flustered to think of that. So out came the dash... then the crap behind the dash (in between in and the firewall) felt Evan's (Bracket Racer) wrath and was torn out... carpet and insulation was pulled back, and the drill and sawzall (aka, solvesall) came out. some cuts were made and by that time we had lost all light... Evan invited us to stay the night to rest up for the drive home and pulling the tranny, and to wait for daylight. We gladly accepted his hospitality and got working in the morning... some more cutting and labor and it was out. Got all the tools rounded up and sorted out and everything packed up right as it started to rain... and just under 6 hrs later (7 if you count stops and dropping off borrowed tools at a friend's house) we were home in NJ.

[blazee]

Well, look on the bright side..... you're better at pulling transmissions than posting links.

[wrightz28]

hmmm,

Photobucket link not responding.

Anyway, i take it this is out of another 4th gen? All the ones I've done I went fron the back side tiliting the trans ever so slighty and using a barage of combinations involving 36", 24" and 9" extensions. Never mucked around with a 4th gen trans, yet

[philly rs]

sounds like u had alot of fun, and why is the link not working????????

[Savage Messiah]

yea i gotta fix the link later.

[1986Z28]

fix it now cookie boy

[88camaroproject]

Aahhhhhhh!!!! Fix The Link

[skibum1111]

I was involved in pulling a motor and trans from a 99 ss that sadly got eaten by a bus (long story, have pics somewhere), we used a torch and basically split the car in half, the picked up the pieces.

[Jcrane88]

i hate it when that happens.........i recently pulled a trans out of a '70 C10.....i was very very tempted to bust out the rear window..wrap a chain through the back window and back in the door window..tie it on to one of my tractors and flip the truck upside down.........last second i decided not to...mostly cause the truck may have landed on a crashed chevette or a nice 66' C10 on the other....

[Earlsfat]

Originally Posted by skibum1111

I was involved in pulling a motor and trans from a 99 ss that sadly got eaten by a bus (long story, have pics somewhere), we used a torch and basically split the car in half, the picked up the pieces.

HAH! Wish I was there... sounds like it was fun.

[Savage Messiah]

Blurry pics are due to shitty camera. :shrug:

[Savage Messiah]

By the way, working on gravel SUCKS.

[wrightz28]

you know, after all that, those white shirts are still pretty clean looking

[Genopsyde]

that's quite the hack job ya did there.

[skibum1111]

Originally Posted by Earlsfat

HAH! Wish I was there... sounds like it was fun.

It was really sad actually as the car only had 7k miles on it at the time of the accident and was in showroom condition. I gotta find the pics of the crash, its pretty ugly.