Removing Manual Trans /Axle question

[Daox]

Congrats on getting things all buttoned up! You just saved yourself a heap of money.

[DailyDriverMark]

Thanks for the suggestions!!!...here's what went down...

I went back and tried to get that tranny on a few more times. Even had the help of a friend. No luck and one evening was wasted. I left there with the plan of lowering the tranny back down to do an inspection. The entire trans/diff unit weighs about 90lbs.

Back home I browsed some you tube vid's and had an idea. I saw one vid, where a guy used his fingertips to be sure the disc was perfectly centered.

I thought back to how I installed the clutch set, all tired and lazy, laying on the garage floor and just trusted the pilot tool was level on insertion. DUMB!

Once I thought about that, I knew the likely problem. I lowered the tranny and indeed everything was ok , ...no cause for a hold up, other than the likely plate misalignment. So I got up off the floor and sat up in the engine compartment with the pilot hole level with my eyes. What do you know, 3 evenly spaced access areas in the flywheel, to get a fingertip feel of the disc, vs press plate. I sent some quality time getting the disc as centered as possible. It only looked as If I made a change of about a 16th of an inch, maybe an 8th....But...

..Apparently that did the trick. Again, with the help of a buddy pushing the trans mission inward. I supported the it, from the garage floor and ka-chunk.. it went right on. No later than 1:30 am

Thursday night I went back for final re-assembly. Axles, spindles, calipers, egr valve(clearance), battery tray & battery, fluid refill, frame mounts and on and on..and finally had the wheels on and checking for leaks at 2:40 am. By the time I cleaned up shop and myself, and got the monza parked it was 5 am.

went to work at 9 am, going to bed after I type this, lol.. (that was yesterday)

[petrified.rabbit]

good work.