17 May 12 11:49, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:



 RW>> Yeup. There's a tool that rests on the inner fender wells of FWD
 RW>> cars that they use to 'hang' the engine while they remove that
 RW>> subframe. Once that's out of the way, they can R&R the transaxle,
 RW>> put in a new clutch, change the pan gasket and several other things
 RW>> that you couldn't do in your garage.

 MH> I figured there was some trick to it.

I wondered about it for a long time, then finally got to see it happen.

 MH> I really wanted to watch the transmission shop remove the tranmission
 MH> from my car when they did the rebuild.  I am just really curious to
 MH> how they got it out and back in.  I do know they removed the subframe
 MH> to do it.

They used the above tool to hang the motor, remove the subframe and then
the trans...that tool makes the job so much easier. The last one I watched
them do was a 90+ Pontiac Bonneville with the 3.8 V6 in it. Piece of cake.

They R&Rd a junk yard trans in place of the worn out trans, but it wasn't
the trans the owner thought he'd get from a junk yard and the cost of
doing the job all over again wasn't worth it to him. Harry ended up with
the car, which he sold for scrap iron.

 RW>> They also use that fender hanging tool to do axle swaps...

 MH> You can replace the CV axles on my car without doing that,
 MH> fortunately.

On most cars, but there are some that need the engine tool to do.

 RW>> Does your helmet have vents to allow for air flow into and out of
 RW>> the helmet? Mine do...I especially like the open face helmet for
 RW>> that kind of riding.

 MH> Nope, but I have an open face helmet.  On really hot days, the top of
 MH> my head starts cooking.  When it is that hot, it is better to take
 MH> the car with the A/C.

Even if it does get less fuel mileage than the HD...I found that using the
full face shield on the open face helmut, keeping the hot air off of the
face works pretty good, if you have a top ventilated helmet.

 MH> My car is in the shop right now (today).  They are looking for that
 MH> oil leak around the pan.  I believe they are going to redo the oil
 MH> pan gasket. All I know so far is that the oil drain plug is cracked
 MH> and they are replacing that to start with.

You mean the oil drain plug area in the pan is cracked? Or the drain plug
itself?

                R\%/itt


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