Tips for installing AWD 5spd trans???

[turboglenn]

Anyone got any tricks or tips to make the install easier? I've become quite fast at the FWD over the years but the AWD seams to be a whole new bear when it comes to lining it up and getting the input shaft into the friction disk and the bolts started.. the rear of it where it hits the front subframe is the main issue.. I usually leave the mount on the rear on the sub frame and just unbolt the 3 17mm bolts fro the trans body, then up front i seperate the front roll stop and pull the front member down as well and the top mount i unbolt from the verticle bolts and then rotatte the mount up and out of the way, but i just can't seem to find anything that makes putting this bi*** up in there go any faster or smoother..some long time AWD guys gimme some tips please!!!!!!!

Got my Flywheel torqued and red loc-tited in from it coming loose earlier today (see thread about noise in thise section) but now it's time to wrestle that beast up in there again and i'm almost feeling defeate before i start again...

Should it go in perfect level or maybe be rocked in back end first or what... there has to be something to making it faster/easier.. once that's in the rest is cake IMO, just getting it up to the engine and bolted down seems like the impossible task and where 90% of the man hours on a trans R&R come from

edit; nevermind, i must type in invisible ink.. not even one view on my post from this morning ,. well I got all the issues solved, trans back in, all hooked up and ready to drive again..........thnks anyway!

 

[bastarddsm]

You might want to check some videos from the '96 olymics in Atlanta, I heard "DSM transmission Installation" was an even that year.

In my 1G it takes a case of whiskey, and lots of swearing. I usually pull the IC piping out as that helps for me.

 

[Dallas J]

Ive put in dozens between 1gs, 2gs, Evos, and VR4s. I always use a cherry picker on one of the bolt holes for the shifter linkage. Its almost a perfect balance and the trans goes in quite easy.

 

[MY1GDSM]

Pulling the brace off the passenger side of subframe will give you that extra small bit of room to get a Awd drive trans to clear....

 

[turboglenn]

Pulling the brace off the passenger side of subframe will give you that extra small bit of room to get a Awd drive trans to clear....

already have this one on my list.. one thing i found that REALLY helped a lot was to take out the top (middle) dust cover/vent rubber from the bell housing and use light to see down in there to check alignment of the input shaft to the friction disk then i adjust the trans jack or rock it back and forth and push with my foot and check again I use my legs to install my 2g FWD trans and i'm pretty fast with those when i am working well and not in a lot of pain. i think i got the AWD in with good time tonight though too, probably 35-45 minutes of actually trying to line it up before i got the first bell housing bolt in.

Then frtom there it was cake as usuall, just the few extra part of the AWD setup like t-case, left half shaft bracket etc.. but all in all i can't complain about tonights R&R job, it could have been a lot worse

didn't even get too coated in gear oil, which i always manage to get on me some where i can't wash it off and get rid ofthe nasty smell of it

I've got all the tools cleaned up, hood buttoned down and going through my check list and realized the one thing i need to get still.. The 14mm nut/bolt combo on the front roll stop on the floor again