HondaTuner

With the bolts, thats why you label EVERYTHING. Good thing only 1 is left over though, haha, I've heard of worse.

95RedEX

I always loosened the axle nuts before I bother to jack the car up. Now I don't even bother. Just remove the fork, unhook the ball joint and pull the shaft out of the tranny. Bag the end of the shaft and swing them out of the way.

Also, it really helps if you support the engine from below (with a jack and a piece of wood so you don't damage the pan), remove (or at least loosen) ALL the motor mounts except the top driver's side. Slowly drop the jack and tip the engine down towards the passenger side wheel. That should give you enough room to slide the tranny back on.

Yeah. Noob mistakes, but that's how you learn. First clutch job took me 3 days. Second and third took me 1.

Oh yeah, a REALLY good way to keep track of your bolts is to buy sandwich bags and throw them in their own bags with a scrap of paper saying what it is or where it goes.

HondaTuner

Exactly. I'd do that or put a label directly on the bolts. It really does help in the end.

danronian

Na. I was re-attaching the radius rod to the LCA and we put it back on the ground with the wheel on.



How do we know if that gear selector box (one that bolts on top of the tranny) is on right? It felt like it went on just as easy as it came off, but I could be wrong. It might be fine though, i'm just afraid it isnt since the manual said nothing about taking it off.


On our first try we did detach all the mounts from the motor minus that mount, but we still couldnt get the tranny to clear the rear-crossmember when we tried to slide it on the motor. I wanted to use the jack it down from below but someone just had to get some use out of the new cherry picker. We swapped out a d series and put a b series back into my friend's rex using the jack from below method and it was way easier then using this stupid hoist.
When it came to the pass side axle we just detached everything and pushed it out of the way. We did it on the driver's side axle too, i just wasnt sure if it would give us enough clearance with it still attached since we had to have the tranny under there...now i see we would have been fun, just sucks i didnt realize this on saturday, oh well, now i know you don't have to touch those nuts.

Jorsher

HAHAHAHAH I GET TO LERN FROM UR MISTEAKS

Yeah I get to help my friend change his clutch, then I'm changing mine in prep for turbo. Hope I don't go the hell you did.

I know the first time I changed my headgasket it took me erm a day, a lot of stupid stuff that I didn't figure out until I did it. Now I think I could change one in 30-90min...

Loserkidwac

This is no where as easy as a civic or ingetra the accord and prelude are a different ball game...I felt like a noob helping witht his accord arem't fun to work on

Dan and i aren't noobs to this stuff this car was just a huge pain

I like to put my bolts back in the where they go so i don't lose them or I do the baggie thing

Jorsher

Ah good, I figured civic would be a bit easier I think I'll bag and label my stuff this time, when I changed my headgasket I didn't and had a HELLUVA time putting it all back together.

danronian

I used to be like that, but i just got lazy...I should probably start doing it again.

Cray91

Never bagged a bolt in my life. It always works out in the end. Unless you are rebuilding the whole motor there really can't possibly be that many bolts that can fit more than one place.

Jorsher

Haha true but it sucks when you end up with a bolt left over and have no freakin clue where it came from.