me and my friend are removing my tranny out of the maxima. omg the chilton book sucks so bad has hella pages on manual trans but then for auto tran it has like 8 steps and a couple of pics so we said f*** tha book and doing it totaly by are heads. bah!! damn nissan hella more complicated than a honda. ne ways we removed a bunch of the cv boots couple of mounts hella fricken screws dang and only half way done this is going to be the biggest pain in the bottty puttin it back in. if any body has ever removed theirs feel free to give me a couple of pointers, espacilly scared that the engine gonna fall fown from the support its already kinda saggin. o well after im done with this ill add it to my list of things i master on tha max. that list is gettin pretty long

 

hey dude


i dont think you should be doing something your not too familar with. it could dammage your parts plus you could hurt yourself big time. Before you drop your tranny, you need to remove a small access plate and there should be 4 bolts in there for you to remove on the torque converter. do this BEFORE you drop the tranny! screw the manual! you dont need it, pull driveaxles, disconnect all accessories stuff, remove starter, remove tranny to engine bolts, remove motor mounts, drop on tranny jack, boom your done. takes us a lil under 2 hours to drop.

oh, manual says to drop the cross member but we never do and have no probs.

 

Yeah....what he said.....

Its not a big deal, you just have to know what bolts to remove, and how to lower the tranny (make sure car is high enough to get tranny out from underneath it).

pull axles away (you don't have to pull them off), tranny housong bolts, all wires that atache to car (starter, TCU, linkage, etc)...tranny/engine mount bolt. Lower with jack (don't hurt the pan)..

When its away from the car, swap the starter, mount, linkage, etc when the trannies are side-by-side, one part at a time....Jack back under car, put all the bolts back...If you do the tranny housing bolts first (not tight), the TC bolts to the flywheel will be easier to line up....

Are you READING THIS JIM ????


Don