You are supposed to do it the way you said, but if you dont have a lift and youre by yourself you have to lift the rear end of the car 6 ft in the air. Oh and getting those transaxels out after 140,000 miles is next to impossible. I think rear wheel drive cars are easier because you dont have to pull the transmission with the engine. It was a bear to get all 4 motor/transmission mounts to line up too. It took me like 4 days to pull the mr2 engine (but I got it down to about 8 hours over the next couple of times). They each had their difficulties though