Thread: How to remove gearbox

I assume Rave does not give much guidance then? Can't remember exactly how I did it, but two ideas come to mind:

Refit a few of the other bolts so that all the weight is not on only a few bolts. Remove the rear mounts for the gearbox and anything else that will prevent it from lowering. Support the gearbox weight with appropriate jack and lower it a bit to give you some room to work. Be cautious of this as you don't want to angle it too far and damage your front engine mounts.

Might need to use a combination of extensions, uni joints and wobble bits to get to the bolts.

Otherwise attack it from the top with the appropriate sized spanner. May need to cut it down, heat it and bend it, etc. to customise it to fit.

I have only removed a D1 gearbox, lowering the rear allowed the engine & gearbox to tilt back to give enough room to reach the top two bolts.
Points to watch are the fan and radiator and rear top of the engine to the bulkhead.
We used a 50mm SHS through the front door windows suspended from the carport. We had a chain hoist from the SHS through the center console around the gearbox

Originally Posted by Ollie

We used a 50mm SHS through the front door windows suspended from the carport. We had a chain hoist from the SHS through the center console around the gearbox

Yes, with the D1 Rave recommends using the chain through the shifter hole. I used an engine crane and chain wrapped around the gearbox for that. It was much easier than doing the D2.

With the D2 the shifter (on the automatic at least) doesn't get removed and this wasn't the recommended method in Rave.

Hi
All good we didn't have the jack at the back down as far as it would. Box is now out just have to the right throw out bearing

LRO, It isn't clear whether you have a 1997 D1, or a later year (1999 on) D2, Td5 or V8? if you are replacing clutch etc then you MUST replace the spigot bush in the back of the crankshaft also. This is actually the cause of the groaning noise when releasing the clutch on a Td5 , worse usually when cold. The throwout bearing is usually not the culprit for this sound.


JC