My car is reborn... kinda
 

So after the carnage of hitting a 100lb dog going 60mph, I finally replaced the radiator support, straightened the front frame rail with a sledge hammer, and put on the new fenders and bumper cover. I still need the metal bumper itself, and the car needs to be painted. I also replaced my clutch with a six puck sprung clutch and my flywheel with an 11lb one from lsd while it was off the road. The clutch swap was a friggen nightmare, and my advice is that if you have an engine hoist or lift when replacing the clutch, just pull the whole engine and make life easier for yourself. but thanks to LSD for a sweet clutch, still getting used to it, my old one was worn down to the rivets.

ANYWAY, I broke something and I need one of you part -----s to help me out. I over-torqued the bracket before the tranny was on all the way, its on the bottom of the engine behind the oil pan that connects the back of the engine block to the bottom of the tranny. It is a approx. 1inch square aluminum bracket sort of "L" shaped connected to the engine by 2 or 3 14mm bolts and to the tranny with a 17mm bolt I think. Oh its from a b18b. Help me out nignogs. I'd post pictures but I've downgraded to 56k for the summer and can't tie up my phone line for 6 hours. oh yeah, my POS greddy 18g internal wastegate isn't working, any ideas? Limitless boost is fun, but kind of horrifying

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pics.... :y

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---- watsegates, and the bracket is useless. I dont have one, many tohers do not eaither.

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i think the black fenders and hood give the car a sexy look as well as the blown out rear window, replaced with clear pastic and covered with duct tape art. :y

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dropping a tranny is ------ cake, haha good job though

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changing a clutch takes like 45 minnutes..... :P

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how do YOU change a clutch?? explain how to take an engine/trans out in less than 45 minits please :y

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Took me 5 hours to swap out my clutch by myself, got it disassembled and out fine, getting the trans shaft to line back up was the ------- hard part, ------- thing dropped on my chest a few times. Having a hand woulda been marvelous

Oh, and the pic dont work

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My friend bought those for his y8 at honda. They weren't too much, I can't remember what's they're listed as. I'd call them and see if the parts guy can figure it out. It's listed in a wierd section. I'll ask him later how much he payed.


For those of you that can swap a clutch in < an hour. If you're anywhere near Miami I've got $100 for an hour's worth of work...

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Hey, if you ARE looking for that bracket, I have both front and rear from from my B18B. Let me know if your shoppin em. Reading comprehension owns me.

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there is no need to pull the motor

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+1

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no need to pull axles or even break the lbj loose either ;D

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please explain i would really like to know. i have a new clutch myself but i dont have help to put it in. if there was no need to take motor out, i might be able to do it myself

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You don't need to take the engine out, you can leave it in and just take the tranny out. As for 45 minutes, thats a little ridiculous, but I guess maybe possible with a lift and if you do it every day or something. I ran into some extra problems because I took out all my engine mounts to fill them with urethane when I took the tranny out, and that was before I bought and engine hoist ($120 from pepboys, and its pretty beefy. I love buying new toys 8) ) So I had extra alignment problems. I just thought with the amount of time it takes to unbolt the tranny and unplug everything and get the tranny off, you could just use that extra time to just pull the other axle and unclip the wire harness and radiator hoses and pull the whole engine out. With it out all the way you'd be able to do everything much more easily. I'd still like to get the aluminum bracket I broke so those of you who have an extra hit me up with a price. I also need a new bitchpin (the spring pin in the tranny end of the shift linkage). I could just go to the dealer but I'm uber cheap.

By the way, there is a shaking when I slip my clutch from a stop to get moving, is this normal for a 6puck clutch that only has about 200 miles on it?

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Jesus, look for any clutch install write up. Disconnect all the ---- from the tranny, use your method of choice to get the axles out, then just drop the fucker. Has nothing to do with taking the engine out. I do it with the srock jacks from my families 3 cars and 2 jack stands. Tools? 3 foot hollow steel pipe and a 20$ chinese auto set.

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I've been told you can replace that with a nut/bolt, easier to come by and will come out easier next time.