alright, im removing my engine, i have evrythin disconnected except for the lower driver side tranny bolt, having one hell of a time trying to loosen it, any suggestions or special tricks to get it off???

liquid wrench..

cross that out--- how the **** do you get the damn engine out of the damn car???everything is taken out and unwired and stuff but we cant quite get it out of the car, ne suggestions???:confused:

Engine mounts loosened?

It is loose from the tranny I assume. Tip the engine up at the front then slide it forward some. Out it comes!

Mike McBride

bolts are completely out of them, what we are going to try is to jak it up and then slide it off, thats all weve got for now so ne other suggestions would be great-hey today is 420!!!!!!!:D

make sure the dogbone on the tranny is disconnected so you can tilt the engine up.

dogbone??

it looks exactly like a dog bone. holds tranny on top to the firewall.

well damn it !!

Yes disconnect the pitch mount (dog bone). Then use the hoist and put some tension on the engine. You'll want to jack up the tranny too to give it a better angle to slide off. Make sure the motor mounts are high enough to clear the crossmember then just shake a little and pull the hoist back. Should come off pretty easy. :)

If all this sounds strange to you, get a Chiltons. Subaru remove engine section. Very easy compared to anything else.

MM

were having trouble gettng the flywheel out of my old engine, bolts are stripping, whats the metric size of the bolts and how can you get them out???? help pleeeeez:banana: i dance 4 u, help me and i dance more!!!

having trouble getting the flywheel into the tranny, any suggestions??

Originally posted by legaceee
having trouble getting the flywheel into the tranny, any suggestions??

:confused: The bolts are 14mm i believe. I'm confused are you having trouble bolting the flywheel down to the motor, or not being able to stab the tranny onto the motor and having it slide onto the tranny?

the second thing u said-not being able to stab the tranny onto the motor and having it slide onto the tranny?

Hope everything worked out. However, incredibly generic statements like "bolts are stripping" don't help us help you. You're obviously fighting for six or so hours with this, take an extra few minutes and tell us what's happening if you want help.

I mean, if the bolt heads are stripping, or the bolt threads are stripping, that two entirely different things...

right now our problem is that we cant get the engine to completely go into the tranny, it is stopping less than a half an inch away from cmpletely connecting. nothing is blocking it, our thoughts are that the teeth of the flywheel might not be connecting correctly with the tranny. we have the tranny lifted just a little but its still not going in, please help i need the car tonight!:eek:

1) make sure that the alignment pins on the mating surfaces are hitting their holes

2) pull it together using long bolts

*cough*... don't pull it together using long bolts. Great way to strip out the aluminum threads. Do you really want to pull the motor again to heli-coil your trans bolts?

Jack trans up. bring motor into engine bay a$$ end down. line up two long studs. line up pins. push together. If stopped, use 22mm nut on crank pulley to turn back and forth. wiggle. should slide in like butter.

If not, play with angle of trans and engine. You did use a clutch alignment tool to put the clutch back on right?

Fitz

Did you install a new clutch? Is the disk centered behind the pressure plate? Did you use an alignment tool?

The main shaft has to enter the pilot bearing dead on,

Another though was the release arm for the throw out bearing, is it in it's groove?

Just a couple of ideas...:rolleyes: good luck,