April 25, 2001
April 25, 2001
Since Michael is:
- Impatient, especially when faced with my extremely deliberate methodology for this process, and
- Very sure of himself when it comes to yanking things out of cars,
We decided to take a shot at pulling the transmission even though I don’t have my special high-zoot transmission jack yet. The reasoning was that getting it out would be easy - putting it back in would be where we needed the adjustability and stability of a transmission jack. Things didn’t quite work out the way I hoped…
Before removing the transmission, the manual (and common sense) dictates that these hard lines running from the passenger side of the transmission just behind the torque converter cover need to be removed. They run up forward to the transmission cooler built into the radiator, and are already loose at the other end. Unfortunately, there’s no way to get any sort of a wrench on those nuts with the transmission still in the truck…
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