Dropping a trans out of an 00 Z28 tomorrow...

[AlmightyBirdman]

Me and my buddy are dropping the trans on his Camaro Z28 tomorrow to change the slave cylinder, throw out bearing and inspect the clutch. Anyone have any tips to make this go smoother? Neither of us have dropped a trans out of an f-body before.

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[Eagle]

It's not too hard, really. Top bolts are easiest if you do them first. Drop the cross member, let the trans sag down (rocking the entire engine back) and pull the top bolts out with a long extension and possibly a swivel. Then support the trans again and pull the rest of the bolts.

Good luck

 

[AlmightyBirdman]

Thanks for that tip Eagle! That alone sounds like it'll save us a decent amount of time cause knowing him (and me too) we probably would have just tried to go after all the visible bolts first.

 

[Carls2001ws6]

try to recruit a girl with skinny ass arms, or a wimpy kid with long arms

 

[JDHedman]

It's not too hard, really. Top bolts are easiest if you do them first. Drop the cross member, let the trans sag down (rocking the entire engine back) and pull the top bolts out with a long extension and possibly a swivel. Then support the trans again and pull the rest of the bolts.

Good luck

+1 and if you dont have a swivel Get One.. and he means LONG extension

 

[Bru]

Yeah, probably two or three extensions

 

[Eagle]

I actually own an extension for specifically this job. I think its a 24" extension. Quite handy.

 

[Intel]

I actually own an extension for specifically this job. I think its a 24" extension. Quite handy.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N38FH4/?tag=tcg21-20

These things were a great buy for pulling the trans on my 300zx. Only other bit of advice is I usually put a piece of duct tape around the 1/2 swivel to keep it from flopping around as much. Not sure if you LS people need that but it helped me a ton.

 

[AlmightyBirdman]

Trust me, we have all the tools we will need and more. We're doing this on a lift at his dads shop. And I've been under this car before when we bled the clutch and yeah, i agree very little arm room. Not looking forward to that part. Thanks for all the tips so far gentlemen!

 

[Carls2001ws6]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N38FH4/?tag=tcg21-20

These things were a great buy for pulling the trans on my 300zx. Only other bit of advice is I usually put a piece of duct tape around the 1/2 swivel to keep it from flopping around as much. Not sure if you LS people need that but it helped me a ton.

Good idea!

I'll try that next time.

Also when you go to reinstall everything put a dab of grease in your socket to hold the bolt in it. That works good too.

 

[CrunkMaro]

buy replacement bolts for your exhaust

 

[XxApollynxX]

Make sure you undo the clips for the airlid so when you rock the motor back your not in for some nice surprises ask me how I know this lol.

 

[AlmightyBirdman]

Well it took us all day but we got it out and back in in the same day. It actually wasn't nearly as hard as we thought. Most of our time consuming came from the prep work before dropping the trans and getting off snapped exhaust bolts . We also found out with no trans in that it's really hard to get the bellhousing lined up since the engine isn't sagging anymore. So what we did was we found a little notch on the block that was solid, put a hook in it with a ratchet strap attached to it and attached the other end to part of the lift. After that it went in pretty quick. Thanks again for anyone that gave tips to us because they did help!