Table of contents: Removal 🠇 Separating the gearbox from the…🠇 Preparing for installation 🠇 Connecting the gearbox to the engine 🠇 Installation 🠇
Attention! The engine is removed from the car only with the gearbox.
Removal is carried out in the same way as removal of the engine with a manual transmission, except for the following differences.
Removal
1. Using a lever, remove the ball joint of the cable from the selector lever. Remove the bracket securing the cable to the gearbox mounting bracket.
2. Trace the wiring back from the multifunction switch to the connector. Separate the connector from the bracket and disconnect it.
3. Disconnect the wiring harness at the large connector adjacent to the transmission cooling system.
4. Clamp the cooling system hoses.
5. Remove both cooling system hoses from the cooler.
6. Disconnect the connector from the bracket located above the cooler and remove it.
7. Disconnect the ground wire connecting the gearbox to the body.
8. Remove the bracket that supports the transmission hoses.
9. Remove the connector from the speedometer drive converter and remove the speed sensor from the flywheel housing.
10. Remove the starter.
11. Label and disconnect the remaining transmission related connectors.
Separating the gearbox from the engine
1. Mount the power unit on the appropriate bars.
2. Turn the crankshaft by the crankshaft pulley mounting bolt until one of the torque converter mounting bolts appears in the starter installation hole.
3. Unscrew the torque converter mounting bolt and, while turning the crankshaft, unscrew the two remaining torque converter mounting bolts.
4. Unscrew the bolts securing the gearbox housing to the engine.
5. Move the transmission away from the engine and insert a bolt and washer through the speed sensor hole into the flywheel housing to keep the torque converter on the transmission.
Preparing for installation
1. To prepare for installation, it is necessary to make a simple tool to align the torque converter with the drive plate. The tool is a torque converter mounting bolt, only long, with a cut-off head and a slot for a screwdriver at the end.
2. Rotate the engine crankshaft so that one of the torque converter mounting holes is aligned with the starter mounting hole. Screw the tool into one of the torque converter mounting holes. Rotate the torque converter so that the alignment tool is in the correct position relative to the starter mounting hole. As the transmission is being installed, the alignment tool will pass through the mounting bolt hole in the drive plate and through the starter mounting hole. This tool can then be unscrewed with a screwdriver and the first torque converter mounting bolt can be installed in its place.
3. Check that the guide pins are installed in the engine block or transmission housing.
Connecting the gearbox to the engine
1. Installation is performed in the reverse order of removal. The following points should be kept in mind:
- position the transmission so that the alignment tool passes through the drive plate and the starter mounting hole;
- remove the bolt from the speed sensor hole;
- after bolting the gearbox to the engine, remove the alignment tool and screw in the first torque converter mounting bolt.
2. Turn the crankshaft and screw in the remaining two bolts.
Installation
1. Install the starter and tighten the bolts.
2. Install the power unit into the engine compartment of the vehicle.
3. Further installation is carried out in the reverse order of removal.