My poor car has been in my driveway under a cover for 3 weeks now. I finally got all my parts, mainly waiting for that darn trans to come. Everything came and I am expecting to do this job this weekend. (Might I add many pics will be taken). I have all the nessary tools and equpitment to do this job. I will be helped by a fellow org member.

1). New transmission
2). Stillen flywheel
3). ACT Stage 1 clutch
4). New oem knock sensor
5). New fuel filter
6). New red-top opitma battery
7). 2 new throw-out bearings (For those just incase things)
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Pics:
clutch

flywheel

trans

 

More pics:

Battery


My poor car


Stay tuned everyone!

 

I cant believe your gonna work on your car in this weather. Your a warrior.

 

Hotness!!!!
Good pick on parts.

Mike

 

step 1. sell maxima

step 2. buy a camaro

step 3. marry you cousin

step 4. let me do your wife.

 

Sounds like somebody's Maxima is getting some lovin'

 

Off topic but your car cover looks like it works well in the snow. Whats the name brand?

 

Looking good. Should be a fun weekend.

You must have a garage, because I know you wouldnt survive doing this outside in the driveway.

 

wtf???? Are you drunk???

 

I beleive you missed your thread...

to the drunk thread!

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=356052

 

A new set of TO bearings is a good idea anyway.

 

well, since you're opening up the rear side of the crank, you might as well go beyond the timing plate and replace the rear main seal. if you put everything together, and that rear main seal happens to leak or what not, you might have slight bit of oil leaking into the clutch and that'll cause slipping. it's what had happend to me. just a good suggestion.

 

...looking forward to this weekend, hope it doesnt rain...too much

 

Yeah bro, its going to be good outside on saturday. 48 Deg sunny! Yes, I was told not to mess around with the rear main seal. I will clean up the back side of the engine and use black RTV silicone around the gasket to help it with leaks if there are any which im pretty sure there might not be unless nissan didn't change the seal 4 years ago. I do have 3 TO bearings. Those are the just incase things. On my new trans it already came with one. I am planning on replacing the pilot bearing as well. I do have the tool for that. Anyone replace theirs? Last thing I must do is call stillen up and get the correct tq specs on that flywheel. I will let you all know how the operation went. Keep them comments coming

 

Hey man, you gotta do what you gotta do. The old girl needs lovin' all year long. Winter never stopped me before...I'm planning to do a trans fluid change the day after Christmas.

 

you da man

 

dang man your tough. i couldnt handle that weather. good luck keep up updated

 

man you guys need to stop complaining about the weather... man iv changed transmissions outside when it was 10 degrees... and flushed the radiator the same time

 

Nice pics... good luck. I'm waiting till it warms up a bit up here to do any work on my car. It was -21 degrees two days ago with the windchill.

 

if you dont mind me asking

how much and where'd you get the tranny?

 

VLSD???????? From my own experience if the rear main isn't leaking don't mess with it. Mine wasn't leaking but I had a shady mechanic do it as a precaution when i had my VLSD tranny intalled. Bad idea. Now it weeps ever so little.

 

www.allnissanparts.com

$1850 or something in that area for a new 5 speed trans shipped from CA to NJ. Not bad if you ask me. Let me warn you now it will take up to 2-3 weeks for you to get this transmission.

 

damn thats cheaper than what I thought!!!

I thought it'd be $2500+

 

keep us updated. whos helping u out?

 

Tavarish is helping me out. Yeah, I haven't decided what time to start. Ill prob do it an hour after I wake up. Quick question to anyone.. What should I torque down the stillen flywheel 2?

 

same as OEM??????

 

Stillen flywheel is lightweight. I wouldn't think you can TQ that bad boy on to those OEM specs it would be a bad idea haha. Ok guys today is SATURDAY morning. The over hauling will being in another hour or so. Getting my last min preps done

 

Up nice and early... Good luck with everything.

 

Thank you count down in 10 min im heading out

 

Good Luck!

 

aight, i'll meet you up in an hour.

 

No problem on the pilot, guess the hardest part is taking it out, otherwise it slips right in.

I made a reference document for torque specs: http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=440195

Jae

 

Ok guys, we are done. Very much tired but done. Ran into a few problems but me and my wonderful crew got passed it all. We worked well into the night, finished about 10:20 at night. We started around 1:00 in the afternoon, bs'ed a whole bunch hahaha but it was great! I would like to thank travish and 00witsedan for helping me out. Here are the pictures enjoy!

 

more

 

and more

 

Good to hear you guys got the work done. Congrats.

How did you solve the flywheel issue? did you just bolt it up without that extra ring that is on the OEM flywheel?

you old cluch looks like it was really starting to give out, a lot of heat spots, and such.

Have you done a test drive? or too tired and will do in the mourning?

my only concern is. . .

Damn! you just let the hub hang like kids in the mall!

 

yea, good times...hope the tranny works well, just remember the BREAK IN PERIOD for the clutch...and i'll let you know when I do my 3.5 swap in the spring....hopefully we won't need that heater...hehe...

Glad to help out
-Freddy

 

Yeah, it doesnt do much damage to the hub, when I did my suspension and tranny swap, it hung just like that, no problems whatsoever.

 

hahaha, I put back the stock flywheel. Used 100 grit and made the surface really nice and smooth. Then cleaned it off as best as I can. Travish cleaned up the rear of the engine and fixed the rear main seal. Had a slight oil leak. No I did not test drive my car yet. Everything felt good the car was running great. Yeah freddy hopefully we wont need a little heater and "booty" phone calls hahahaha.

 

BUMP, Going to take more pics today.