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553 viewsRemoving the speedo sender from the damaged tail cover.
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486 viewsThis is what I saw when on the tanny end when I removed the tail cover. That dumbbell looking gear stack directly in front is what goes on the shaft that is inside the tail cover.
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462 viewsMy rebuilt tranny still had oil in it. But tipping it on it's bell-housing would let the oil leak out the breather port. So I pushed a plug into the hole on the breather and securly zip-tied it. Worked perfectly to hold the oil in while I swapped tail covers.
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440 viewsThis shows the gear stack in the proper assembly order on the shaft in the tail cover. Note the notch in the spacer.
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432 viewsWhen I carefully removed the broken cover this is what the inside looked like.
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430 viewsMake sure the step in the spacer fits accordingly!
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420 viewsShift rod removed from both ends. I later removed it for the install of the new firewall shift bushing as well as pulling the tranny.
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419 viewsFirewall bushing for shift rod. The white one on the left is the new unit and the black one on the right is the original.
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417 viewsNew tranny going in the opposite way it came out. This was my view of wiggling and pushing the tranny into the car, trying to get the lower engine studs to pass through the tranny bell-housing holes as well as having the splines line up on the tranny input shaft.
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411 views...and here's what the underside of the car looks like sans transaxle :-)
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410 viewsLooking up at the transmission mount. Boy, looks like I'm gonna have to break out the Simple Green and scrub brush!
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409 viewsCV bolts removed. Reference photograph for wiring...but really, it ain't that complex under here.
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403 viewsDropped!
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400 viewsEngine is supported and the jack placed for removing the tranny.
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