Need step by step procedure for gearbox removal
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:12 am
Hello,
I browsed in the forum and realized there is the "engine then gearbox" way and the "all-together" way.
I will choose so far the "all together engine + gearbox" removal solution. I don't know yet if I will take my cherished Elan to some unknown garage which do not know jackshit about Elan and will charge me like if I was an american (no offense intended) OR if I will do it myself for the very first time with a friend.
Anyway and either way, I will feel more secure if I have a procedure to follow that I understood previously. If I am doing it myself or if I have to translate it to give advices to the garage, Some vocabulary words are missing for me to understand clearly what I have to do. For example I googled the word "tranny" which I read in many of your posts and found some disguting answers....
Sometimes I feel you re taking shortcuts and forget about removing or unscrewing certain parts.
So far here is a mix of what I read and what I don't understand.
It is a Lotus Elan S4 on a Spyder chassis
1. Drain radiator fluid. Disconnect hoses at thermostat and timing case and heater hoses at thermostat and timing case. Drain Gearbox Oil.
(Don't you need to remove the radiator?)
2. Detach heater control wire.
3. Remove air box and carbs.
4. Remove alternator (is that mandatory?)
5. Remove starter. (is that mandatory?)
6. Remove bolts attaching tranny mount to the cross bar. Put in long bolts through the holes to keep tranny from moving forward. (what is tranny except that weird youporn category of shemale)
7. Detach wires to reverse switch; remove reverse switch.
8. Remove shift lever. ( only the stick? do you need to remove the fiber glass tunnel to do that?)
9. Remove engine mounts. ( from which point? from the engine side or from the chassis side where are the rubber mounts blocks?)
10. Remove exhaust header or manifold bolts. Remove the Mikalor collar which hold the Y Pipe below the car.
11. Slide engine (and tranny together) as far right as possible; you should now be able to separate the headers from the head.
12. Slide engine back to center.
13. Connect engine hoist to cylinder head using chains or rope supporting head at the thermostat and intake manifolds.
14. Slide engine forward and lift with hoist and lift it nearly vertical to clear the chassis
(there is nothing to unscrew below the car attaching the main drive shaft to the gear box?)
(What about the speedo cable???)
Thank you to help me to create a full tutorial.
I browsed in the forum and realized there is the "engine then gearbox" way and the "all-together" way.
I will choose so far the "all together engine + gearbox" removal solution. I don't know yet if I will take my cherished Elan to some unknown garage which do not know jackshit about Elan and will charge me like if I was an american (no offense intended) OR if I will do it myself for the very first time with a friend.
Anyway and either way, I will feel more secure if I have a procedure to follow that I understood previously. If I am doing it myself or if I have to translate it to give advices to the garage, Some vocabulary words are missing for me to understand clearly what I have to do. For example I googled the word "tranny" which I read in many of your posts and found some disguting answers....
Sometimes I feel you re taking shortcuts and forget about removing or unscrewing certain parts.
So far here is a mix of what I read and what I don't understand.
It is a Lotus Elan S4 on a Spyder chassis
1. Drain radiator fluid. Disconnect hoses at thermostat and timing case and heater hoses at thermostat and timing case. Drain Gearbox Oil.
(Don't you need to remove the radiator?)
2. Detach heater control wire.
3. Remove air box and carbs.
4. Remove alternator (is that mandatory?)
5. Remove starter. (is that mandatory?)
6. Remove bolts attaching tranny mount to the cross bar. Put in long bolts through the holes to keep tranny from moving forward. (what is tranny except that weird youporn category of shemale)
7. Detach wires to reverse switch; remove reverse switch.
8. Remove shift lever. ( only the stick? do you need to remove the fiber glass tunnel to do that?)
9. Remove engine mounts. ( from which point? from the engine side or from the chassis side where are the rubber mounts blocks?)
10. Remove exhaust header or manifold bolts. Remove the Mikalor collar which hold the Y Pipe below the car.
11. Slide engine (and tranny together) as far right as possible; you should now be able to separate the headers from the head.
12. Slide engine back to center.
13. Connect engine hoist to cylinder head using chains or rope supporting head at the thermostat and intake manifolds.
14. Slide engine forward and lift with hoist and lift it nearly vertical to clear the chassis
(there is nothing to unscrew below the car attaching the main drive shaft to the gear box?)
(What about the speedo cable???)
Thank you to help me to create a full tutorial.