[DMCForum] Re: Replace Pilot Bearing (Remating the Transmission)

["Matt Spittle" <mds328@xxxxxxx>]

How do you know when it's binding?  I pulled my transmission off and
replaced it using the same method that you describe, but I drove the
car just fine after that.  Now, after pulling the engine a second
time, I looked at the input shaft since you mentioned it and I don't
see anything different about it.  Lucky?  

Matt
#1604
  
--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> It's the difference berween 10 spline and 21 spline clutch discs.
> 
> 10 spline are much sturdier. You can actually use the input shaft to
> guide the transmission back to the engine. 21 splines are weak and
> will deform with nothing more than the turn of a STUBBY length wrench.
> No joke -- you absolutely can not feel them bending (versus a 10
> spline, where you use binding action to signal which opposing bolt to
> turn next).
> 
> In the bad old days, you could slide the transmission back, let it
> rest on the crossmember while you replaced the disc & pressure plate,
> then pull it back to the engine with its own mounting bolts. Worked
> like a charm. With these new import transmissions, however, everything
> has to be treated with velvet gloves.  
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
> 
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> > content22207 wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > This is the voice of experience talking: do not use the transmission
> > > mounting bolts to pull it back to the engine. You'll bind and deform
> > > those tiny splines without even feeling any resistance. I ruined two
> > > brand new clutch discs that way. 
> > 
> > So was that the car's fault, or yours?
> > 
> > Martin

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