Ok, first off I realize by asking this I am running the risk of looking like a retard.
Ok, so here is my problem. The transmission exploded in my Sidekick (89 1.6, 5-speed). It has been broken for awhile, a member on the board directed me to a website that searched junkyards, I got a new tranny cheap and I started to put it in. Got the old one loose, no problems.
So here is where I am stuck. The cross member bolts on the passenger side.....how in the |removethispart|@#%~! do you get them out. The bottom has little metal tabs bent up to the sides of the bolt head, which, I assume, is to keep them from spinning. SO that must mean they come off from the top, well other than the fact they are reccessed some, they are also directly below every fuel/brake line that runs to the back of the truck so you can't get a socket on it. Use a wrench...can't get the box end to fit, I can get the open end on there, but you can tell it is not tight enough.
What size is that bolt anyway, the 14mm that everything else was, the open end of the wrench fits like I said sort of, the box end won't go on there, and if I take a socket without the ratchet attached, I can't even find a socket that will fit down on it.
So I thought I will bend back the metal tabs, turn it from the bottom. Hammer them back, of course even flat there isn't really enough sides of the bolt showing, so a socket just wants to round off of it.
I have changed many transmissions mostly in newer mustangs, many different older cars, trucks. Somehow this is escaping me....what am I missing with this? I am ready to run a saw down the middle and just reweld it back when I put the new transmission in.
So....anyone know what I am missing, Ideas....anyone? Help?
Thanks in advance
