flywheel and clutch/pressure plate finnaly installed!

[dbsharp]

I got the bolts (yay!) and insalled the flywheel and clutch/pressureplate. now one more thing i need before i can get my car back on the road, what is the lenght of the long bolt that goes through the starter through the bell housing and into the engine? does any one know? If I can get this before i have to go to work i can drive my car tonight.

[cp[mike]]

measure it ?

[dbsharp]

everything isnt in place yet, and i dont have the long bolt to measure, my auto tranny didnt come with one.

[cp[mike]]

i meant measure how long it needs to be. measure the thickness of the starter flange, the thickness of the tranny housing that it passes through, and add enough that itll thread into the block well.

or just spend the couple bucks at the dealer and get one its the only bolt that length, you cant really substitute any other bolt from the car.

[Maple50175]

hey are you doing this yourself?


How do you change a clutch without removing engine from car. I need to know so I can fix my bro's car.

Thanks

[dbsharp]

well to change the clutch you will have to break the axel nut on the drivers side, passengers side optional but i reccomend it. remove the lower balljoint cotter pin and nut. seperate your ball joints. pop your axels out of the tranny with a big sturdy screwdriver. remove the suspension pice that goes under your tranny. unbolt and remove the tranny, support the tranny and unbolt it starting with the bottom bolts. pull it away from the motor and lower it down. unbolt your pressureplate and remove it along with the clutch. replace the clutch and flywheel/throw out bearing if nessisary. use high temp grease on tranny splines and throw out bearing. tourqe on the pressureplate bolts are 19ft/lbs. use the alignment tool wile tourqing down pressureplate. put it back together. you will most likely have to remove alot of things to acces bolts. if you wanna replace the flywheel the tourqe is 72ft/lbs. the pressure plate bolts require a 10mm 12 point socket and flywheel bolts reqiure a 17mm 12 pt. quality tourqe wrench is a must imo.

[dbsharp]

i had to rotate my tranny alot to get it in the car. and remove the slave cylinder and line to make it simple. also make sure everything is dissconected when dropping the tranny.

[dan21]

i just removed my cluch and flywheel last night not that hard but you will have to manover the trans alot before you get anough clearance to take the clutch out