This day was not a Plus!!!!

[SHOracer14]

At approximately 10:15 this morning, the daunting task of transmission replacement began. The mad scientist (Justin) and his little b**** (Mike) were on there way from Youngstown. Chris (Speedy_91_SHO) and myself (Jim) started disassembling the halfshafts. Problem #1 began when the lower ball joint would not pull out of the knuckle even with the bolts removed. After a great deal of effort we got it apart. Problem #2 occurred when the carrier bearing on the halfshaft needed to be cut to be removed. Problem #3 was the breaking of three out of four of the Y-pipe studs. Problem #4 occurred when we were forced to cut the bolts off in the Y-pipe to exhaust ****** area. Moving right along. Problem #5 arose when one of the steering rack bolts would not break free until after repeated attempts at heating were made. Problem #6 is the problem that has caused us to give up for the evening. The top nut on one subframe bolt spun and the other front subframe bolt just plain broke. The subframe is almost dropped except for the corner that had the spun nut. We tried to get it off by cutting the head of the subframe bolt and it still won't budge. It seems that the problems for the SHO just never end. headbang

 

[shobikes]

A little Sunday mornin' Bright Side for ya:

You're gonna get new halfshaft bearings - it probably needed it anyway.

You'll have an opportunity to replace all those rusty bolts AND apply some anti-seize upon reassembly, so it will forever come apart easily!

You can finally perform that pesky subframe bolt recall, and maybe even install shiny new SFB's to make your finished tranny/clutch job feel EVEN BETTER!

Don't worry - Keep plugging away, step-by-step, and you will get it done. If you think about "how long this is gonna take", or about "all the things that are going wrong", two things usually happen:

1. It takes even longer, 'cause time seems to evaporate.
2. It becomes a miserable death march, and the end product loses some of its sweet taste.

It is what it is. Have a GREAT DAY!

 

[autobahnsho]

Well said, shobikes. (ps- what brand bike rack does your SHO wear? Mine's from Performancebike.com)

To get those pesky manifold studs out I had to take both manifolds off the car. It was a PITA but took only a few minutes to get the studs out after that.

DEFINITELY over-use the anti-seize. That stuff is awesome! There was some on the nuts holding the manifolds onto the block on mine and those were the only nuts that came off halfway easy.

<small>[ November 16, 2003, 09:18 AM: Message edited by: autobahnsho ]</small>

 

[96lt1]

ok, i c how it is...u guys have a tranny pullin party and dont even invite me??? finger oh well, i have enough broken down cars in my garage to keep me busy. hope ya had fun though.
later

Sean thumb

 

[SHOracer14]

Sean you should come help me reassemble. The problem is that 4 different people were working on the car and now everyone except me is gone and I'm having the worst time figuring out where things go because I've never worked on many SHO's until latley. I want to try and get ahold of Perry and see if I can't get advice from him.

 

[Zap]

We had this problem when doing a clutch job. You will have to hold a wrench in the access hole to keep the SF nut steady. If the bolt snaps, you just push the seized bolt/nut out of the way, put the new nut in the hole, and hold it with a wrench. Once it's started, it actually will tighten all the way. It sucked at first, because I had no idea what to do when the tabs broke and the nut just kept spinning.

 

[SLOSHO89]

One of my subframe bolts was spinning when I replaced my bushings. Luckly some one had already cut a hole in the floor and we used a pair of vise-grips to keep the nut from spinning.

Efren