Need some help. Can't get the transmission back in. I know this shouldn't be so hard. I was hoping to have everything back together and on my way again by Tuesday
. I realize these things are always easy the second time so I understand the first time can be hard.
Here is my situation:
I kept my flywheel and put in a new clutch, pressure plate, and throwout bearing. I was putting the transmission back in tonight with my Dad and we couldn't get it in far enough to get the bolts to grab all the way around.
I had my new slave cylinder in already and figured maybe the throwout bearing was pushing on the pressure plate so I removed the slave, no difference.
We were able to get a couple bolts started but then the others don't reach enough to grab. I could tell I had the input shaft into the clutch because when I turned the crank I saw the transmission spin the drives.
We did everything and couldn't get it in far enough so decided to drop things out and make sure we weren't messing something up.
So here is the weird part, the input shaft clearly made it into the pilot bearing because I could see the bearing marks on the shaft lithium grease. So we are thinking is the input shaft out from the transmission too far, or is my flywheel not in correctly. So I measured the following:
- The input shaft is 5/16 below the edge of the transmission.
- The pilot bearing is only 3/16 further out from the engine then where transmission mounts to the engine .
This gives me 2/16 which is a perfect fit, yet I could never get the engine closer then 1 inch from the engine.
This doesn't add up! How do I have pilot bearing marks on the shaft if I still have an inch to go?!! It also felt to us like the transmission wasn't going in far enough because it was pivoting on something. Again remember I saw pilot bearing grease marks on the shaft, so it really was like I had reached bottom.
I'll go measure everything again.