Well, I just got back from a 2 day ordeal of harvesting a manual tranny for my swap from a junkyard 250 miles from the 'rents house and over 600 miles from where my Maxima is! Me and a friend got there around 5:00 during a downpour and decided to wait til today. After 7 hours or grueling tranny pulling from a smashed-in-front donor car, I finally have my tranny! Also got to meet a fellow Org member, first time that's happened! The highlight was when we took a shortcut by cutting off both axles with a torch! It's done now, but I hope I never have to coax a tranny out of a junkyard car ever again!

 

i know how you feel..... they dont let you bring in any kind of jack to hold the dam thing up!!!!!! so i let mine fall to the ground when i took that last bolt out.. the engine.. they had to help me take it out... there is no way i am carrying that SOB outto the car! ha ha... i know how you feel man.. its not fun! especially with rusted bolts and not the right tools with you (cant bring every tool with you) good luck with the swap!

 

who did u meet and where was it?

 

and perhaps that's the reason the tranny was acting up after you got it all together..

 

I met geoff.doctor in Kalamazoo...It was late and I had had enough tranny-pulling fun for the day and forgot to grab the flywheel and shifter assembly.

 

the tranny shifts fine........ i think you are referring to my old one

 

Glad you got it ok, my friend is a little pissed as he was going to pull it, but he could have got the money sooner if he wanted it. I got your PM and the flywheel and access cover are in my trunk.

 

Yeah, I remember you saying something about that...But hey, ya snooze, ya lose

 

I took one to last week to me MaxtUneD to get my new tranny too. dam what a trip 287 miles one way.

 

Why'd it take you 7 hrs? Was the front end smeared over that bad?