« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2009, 11:14:08 AM »
Andy,
I just removed the tranny from my 91 for a buddy of mine. You don't have to remove the header at all. First, you removed the drive shaft right? Ok, now that the D/S is out of the way completely you just pull the tranny out past the spline and it will seem to get hung on the bellhousing with the close tolerances. Just jack the car up and preferably have someone else to help you with this (I didn't and it was really nerve wracking).
Work the tranny until it plops down... you may want to get some foam so when it falls 10 inches or so you don't chip anything you want to keep, like concrete or more importantly the bell housing.
Now I may be the dufus on this but that's the way I did it. I also am scraping the body (I did a complete interior and suspension swap to my new one... i wrecked my first baby). So I'm not worried about cutting anything off. You shouldn't have to worry about cutting off the cat (since these are OBD1) just get a silencer from your local muffler shop for a post cat mod.
Just a though.
You're far braver than I am...I'm going to beg/borrow/steal/Craigslist a tranny jack when I need my next clutch.
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