Couple of Q's on removing 5-speed

[navyX04]

I am in the middle of removing a manual tranny and my questions are: 1) I have all (5) of the x-fer case to tranny bolts removed and I can't break the damn case loose from the tranny for nothing. Can I slide the x-fer case and tranny out as one unit? 2) Is there enough room to slide the tranny past the exhaust y-pipe? I sure would hate to have to bust that damn thing loose. I know I would end up with 4 broken off bolts in the exhaust manifolds. Thanks.

 

[navyX04]

Going once...

 

[MARTY196]

when I took mine out, I took the tranny and tranfercase out as one. I think its alot easier to do also I didn't unhook the exhaust from the engine and once I started to pull it out and then put it back in man did I wish I would have took the exhaust off. its doable with the exhaust on but just alot harder not much room. sorry don't know about the transfer case situation

 

[navyX04]

Thanks for the reply. I figured I could take it off as one unit but the book said to remove it first. I think I'll try to wiggle the tranny around the pipes as well, regardless of the hassle. I just didn't know if the input shaft would clear the engine before it hit the pipes. Another thing I thought of last night is to cut the pipes nice and straight and weld 'em back together.

 

[JoshC]

I personally would take the tcase loose. We just got the tcase off of my brothers 92 that had never been done. Just work a pry bar in there and it will come loose. I couldn't imagine trying to line that thing up and get it all square with the tcase attached, man that would suck.

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