GreenReaper93
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Hey there guys and gals.... GreenReaper here! Well, yesterday I started my first huge project for my Jeep with the help of my mothers fiance. I was changing my clutch stuff because my internal slave was shot. I thought about swapping for the external, but lack of parts forced me to do otherwise.
When reading the book (Haynes) on what to do I quickly grabbed my tool kit and headed off. I had the basics - Metric set, Standard set, wrenches, and some DOT-3. Thankfully the place where I was working on my Jeep had additional tools, or nothing would have been accomplished.
After using an impact wrench to get the bolts off the skid plate we started to unbolt the U-joints off the driveshafts. Rudy (the fiance) worked on that, but later dropped the needle bearing out of one side.... time to play needle bearing pickup! Next, we had to take the shifter lever out. The book says it can be done from underneath. I don't care what that (insert vulgar word here) book says... you can't. We had to tear apart my carpet, the shifter boot, the inspection plate, and the tar that was holding it together just to get it out. So finally, after dealing with this crap (and snapping a couple converter sockets and some tool sockets) we start unbolting the transmission.
I removed five of the seven bolts with some ease.... the upper two are impossible.
Now my poor Jeep is an hour and a half away :roll: in a dark shop, collecting dust, and leaking like a siv. My question to everyone is - what size are those STUPID UPPER BOLTS?! I can't tell if they're TORX or not. Anyone with this knowledge would be most helpful :-D Well, thank you for listening to the story of a frustrated, tired jeep mechanic. Take Care Everyone! :-D [addsig]
Hey there guys and gals.... GreenReaper here! Well, yesterday I started my first huge project for my Jeep with the help of my mothers fiance. I was changing my clutch stuff because my internal slave was shot. I thought about swapping for the external, but lack of parts forced me to do otherwise.
When reading the book (Haynes) on what to do I quickly grabbed my tool kit and headed off. I had the basics - Metric set, Standard set, wrenches, and some DOT-3. Thankfully the place where I was working on my Jeep had additional tools, or nothing would have been accomplished.
After using an impact wrench to get the bolts off the skid plate we started to unbolt the U-joints off the driveshafts. Rudy (the fiance) worked on that, but later dropped the needle bearing out of one side.... time to play needle bearing pickup! Next, we had to take the shifter lever out. The book says it can be done from underneath. I don't care what that (insert vulgar word here) book says... you can't. We had to tear apart my carpet, the shifter boot, the inspection plate, and the tar that was holding it together just to get it out. So finally, after dealing with this crap (and snapping a couple converter sockets and some tool sockets) we start unbolting the transmission.
I removed five of the seven bolts with some ease.... the upper two are impossible.
Now my poor Jeep is an hour and a half away :roll: in a dark shop, collecting dust, and leaking like a siv. My question to everyone is - what size are those STUPID UPPER BOLTS?! I can't tell if they're TORX or not. Anyone with this knowledge would be most helpful :-D Well, thank you for listening to the story of a frustrated, tired jeep mechanic. Take Care Everyone! :-D [addsig]
