30/09/2008 09:12. Everything went smooth, for the most part. Pulling the trans took two of us about 6 hours total over two days (two Sunday afternoons). The first day we got the drive shafts off and every thing unplugged and unbolted, except for those two stupid bolts on the top of the bell housing. So we left it for a week while we asked for advise on how to remove those two bastards. This was two weeks ago.

Fast forward to yesterday, we get back at it again. Turns out the easy way to get to them is to tilt the engine trans assembly down. To do this we had to remove the fan shroud and loosen the motor mounts. With the engine dropped we could see the stupid star head bastard bolts. One came out easy with a wired specialty socket, the other however, did not. Turns out the last mechanic that had the trans... // JP Magazine