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Yeah, that is one place you do NOT want anything remotely sticky, for the above reason.
Given my bloody-finger forced break tonight, I’ve not continued work - at sun up, I’ll try again to sliiiiide the trans shaft in to clutch fingers.
The QM pricey tool is amazing to use and all - and everything is bolted together exactly as need be... but my trans sitting on trans jack didn’t take only the 1 min I had allotted to ‘simple’ line em up and push.
One of the benefits of having a clutch arm is that, with two people, one can move the tranny while the other manipulates the arm freeing the clutch disc just enough so the input shaft can hit its target. Sometimes takes one person moving tranny and another looking to see which way you’re off- then reposition clutch disc a smidge and try again. I think the only time I have one go right in is after I’ve pulled the tranny (it’s already been in the car working) and reinstalled without removing the clutch. Trmec says that T56 weighs 130 lbs - have fun! Oh - the cut finger’s not so bad. I ended up losing a nail when I married mine - got finger caught between a rock and a hard place (tranny and concrete floor). Nothing like drilling a hole in a nail to let the blood out....
Edit -- my garage this morning. And it's a "dry" cool.
Last edited by Michael Yount; 06-22-2018 at 07:12 AM.
An ugly metaphor: Life, is a game of inches. Yes, I did make two grunts to lift hoist up over that wall of concrete...
I once learned about leverage in a science class. I’m sure I got a ‘C’ on the test - but my usage of said ‘C’-level knowledge scored me an ‘A’+ today!!!
My epiphany today: I’m too stupid to be smart, yet I’m too smart to be stupid.
If the hydraulics fail the parts may settle on what I placed below - zero scrap tires laying around
#thatstormsabrewing Supposed 70+mph winds shall be here later - it’ll be hilarious if the garage with my blk car / parts in it gets ripped from house and tossed in a lake If that happens I won’t have to worry about denting my steering rack tomorrow morning upon motor/trans install!!!
that metaphorical storm I said was coming earlier... we’ll, a real one is-a’-coming First
Hang in there my friend! Had an old rwd Toyota Corolla I raced in SCCA ITC back in the day. The tranny x-member had two bolts that went into the frame rail from below -- one on either side of the car. Somebody cross threaded it and totally screwed it up. I simply drilled through from the bottom all the way through the floor into the interior of the car. Put a bolt through from the top and used a nut on the bottom. Fixed.
Don't they? Give them a hiding place... a garage for their cars... they always love them!
... hiding places - like sheered bolts hiding within their respective ‘garages’ - 6hrs worth of drilling various / increasing diameter holes up through the ‘center-ish’ of a bolt - followed by attempts at using reverse bit screw extractors... to get bolt out of garage.
My pictures here tell the story of yesterday.
Today, the final 1 inch of bolt must come out —>
4-step hole creation
Oh boy...
If a persons job is to install a motor, and is using these sorts of tools, there must have been a hiccup in the plan... (or the wrencher May be an idiot - in the case both are occurring simultaneously, carnage will manifest.
....AND, you end up needing a bolt-extractor-extractor for the bolt extractor that breaks off wedged tightly in the thingy you’re desperately trying to extract.
That is one thing I HATE! Drilling out bolts! I like the part about 'center-ish'! Yeah, the exact center NEVER happens.
Sirs, et al...
ive “successfully” drill a 1/4” hole up through the guts and out the tip of my severely stuck subframe bolt.
Im inventing a tool in my head that would act like a jackhammer to concrete... uhh - and air chisel?!?!
No, I have no air tank nor air tools - all hand tools in my life (I apparently prefer to work harder, not smarter).
So since I’ve drilled a whole up through the bolt, it looks like if I could cut bolt in half longways, then I can take segments out.
Please respond at your earliest convenience - I can’t pay for the consult fee right now - but I can promise a debonaire picture once I get these future chunks out.
Ill be walking to Lowe’s soon with kids for our tool expedition - singing Hi-O-High-Oh.... No.
06-21-2018, 09:48 PM
No sticky 
