| I'm guessing your not including the time to lift the car onto stands and getting all the tools you'll need out and ready. Also squirming around underneath a jackstanded Z takes up some time so lets say you have a creeper and really tall jackstands. The time that it takes to spin bolts with a ratchet in a tight space takes longer because each throw on the ratchet is short. Some of those bolts are really tight and you can either use a long handle to help loosen or a short handle to speed up ratchet time. If you want the best of both worlds you'll have to switch tools/position a cheat bar on a short ratchet which could potentially ruin it due to over stressing it. (that's why I say yes with air tools) Disconnect battery. Remove 6 bolts for exhaust, pop hangers off, exhaust out in under 10 mins. I would add ~5 minutes to lube up those rubber hangers and muscle them off, remove the chassis plate and pull the exhaust from under the car. Disconnect the trans wire harness 3 connectors, move out of the way. Remove the 2 slave cylinder bolts, hang it out of the way. Remove the starter, move it out of the way. 5 mins. Remove the 4-6 bolts on the driveshaft (and 2 carrier bearing bolts if oem 2-piece) and slide it out. Then remove the shifter linkage bolt. Again, you're looking at 5 minutes. I may be mistaken but IIRC there's a heatsheild you have to remove to get to the shifter bolt and that bolt has a loose nut on the other end so you would need to hold the nut still with a boxend while awkwardly ratcheting the bolt out... I dont know about you but in that very small space it would take me about 10 minutes more If you want to keep the tranny fluid in then I would leave the DS attached to the diff and just drop the tranny with the DS snout still in, then once the tranny is down tip the rear end up and take the DS out. Otherwise position a drain pan, remove the drain plug and let the fluid out, re-install the plug maybe ~2 minutes set up and postion the tranny jack ~2 minutes Remove the 9ish transmission bellhousing bolts. This takes me maybe 10-15 minutes. guiding the socket to each bolt on the top 4 and loosening and removing them all takes 15-20 IMO. Remove the 4 trans crossmember bolts. 1 minute?
*6 bolts maybe 3 minutes? It takes me more than 15 seconds per bolt.
The trans slides right out. I can't fathom an easier transmission removal process. Maybe YOU can do it in 30 minutes but the average wrencher will most likely take 1 hour *if they're moving quickly and nothing goes wrong. If you ARE that fast then I am genuinely impressed and would have to say you are gifted.
*disclaimer*: all that I say may be true or I may be completely wrong and I accept that.... please, it is your duty as another person on the internet to impolitely tell me how wrong I am :) "The dreaded 2nd windshiled wiper swipe when you turn it off its almost like tis showing you that it's boss, and it doesn't have to stop when you tell it to :("-College Boy (discussion on ptu relocation)
"No good reason to put it there anyway. -Bernie (NoVA)
False -vorpalZ
False. -Bernie (NoVA)
You're correct, there are 3 good reasons -vorpalZ
False. -Bernie (NoVA)
Wow, right again, just remembered another, make that 4 -vorpalZ"
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