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Date:         Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:59:40 -0700
Reply-To:     Tobin Copley <tcopley@SFU.CA>
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From:         Tobin Copley <tcopley@SFU.CA>
Subject:      How to swap tranny bellhousing and input shaft?
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Hi all,

I have *finally* found time to pull the transmission out of my diesel westy in preparation of replacing it with a different (but still diesel) transmission. The one going in has an aircooled bellhousing and input shaft on it, so I'll need to:

1) remove the diesel bellhousing and diesel input shaft off my old diesel tranny, 2) remove the aircooled bellhousing and aircooled input shaft off the "new" diesel tranny, then 3) put my old diesel bellhousing and diesel input shaft on to my "new" diesel tranny.

Make sense?

This procedure does not seem to be covered in my Bentley. Will it be obvious how to proceed? There are smoke bolts I can see inside the bellhousing that seem like the ones I should remove to pull the bellhousing. Once I get that off, will there be an equally obvious set of bolts to remove to take the input shaft off? If not, can someone show me the way?

When I put it back together, how much do I torque the bolts?

Finally, when removing the transmission (by myself--a bit tricky) I was unable to keep the input shaft perfectly straight with respect to the engine at all times, and put a little up/down or sideways force on it as I separated the transmission from the engine. I'd been warned to "take care not to bend the input shaft" so I gotta ask, just how delicate is that thing and how much force are we talking about to possibly bend it? It looks pretty substantial to me. Is there a way to test to see if anything got bent?

Thanks!

T.

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Tobin Copley Vancouver, BC, Canada 49deg 23'N-123deg 19'W

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