motor -tranny

[my454s10]

i was wandering how many of you guys that have a v8 s10 ..have to pull the motor out to get the tranny out..i have to pull the motor to get the tranny out of mine... http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif

[pokey]

is that because you can\'t get to all of the bolts or what,I know its tight

[knudsonm]

I\'ve dropped my tranny twice since I put the 350 in. I just had to loosen the headers to drop the tranny all the way down.

[mommasboy]

You probably didnt enlarge the tranny tunnel enough.

[ZZ4Blazer]

I have so far. I haven\'t tried pulling mine out with it in the truck. I don\'t think getting it out would be hard, just getting it back in. Might be coming out within a few weeks again too. Im getting pretty good at it too. CAn tear most the front clip off, and have the motor and tranny out within a few hours.

[bohn333]

Why are all you guys taking the front clip off? I put my motor and tranny in together with the clip on and it was simple.

[rudedogg]

you probly didn\'t massage the seam on your firewall enough or at all i just pulled my motor on saturday,3.5 hrs.now the new engine is in. once you remove the x-member and exhaust you should be able to access the b-housing bolts all easy except the drivers side top but that\'s it... while your engine is out you should use a 5lb sledge of persuasion at the firewall seam. http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

[ZZ4Blazer]

Its way easier to get to all the little bolts and such without the fenders off. At least without the radiator support off. Mine\'s kinda long too, my 6 speed is 3 or 4\" longer than a stock T56.

[newsomemichael]

I put te motor in then tranny with the clip on the truck.

[4more]

wow to those of you who put engine and tranny in with the front end on you guess must be really good when i swaped my two small block i left the tranny in and it was pretty tight but i guess if you angle the who load a crazy way it could be done but in like half and hour the whole clip can be off and then you can get to everything easy i would only take the clip of to convert it

[bohn333]

I didn\'t even remove my wiper motor, yes it is a pretty insane angle, and also had the truck about 2 feet in the air which helped alot. but i had it in there and bolted to the mounts and crossmember i less than an hour. http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif

[mommasboy]

I think im going to try to put everything in at once when i drop the new stroker in pretty soon. I know one thing...i will have to pull the radiator if i have the crank pully and water pump on cause they hit the radiator just a little comin out.

[my454s10]

i always pull my front clip off...than it slides right in...but my trany bellhousing is right againist the fire wall...i cant even get one bolt out..heck i cant even get a wrench on it...maybe the four cyclinder s10 are different... http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_eek.gif

[4more]

when i swaped my engines i could get all the belhousing bolts out but going back in i couldnt reach to start on of the bolts so i left it out as i never took out my crossmember the bolts were really rusty so i just left it in