2200TC gearbox removal

[DaveHerns]

It's a bit like how rally car mechanics can change a gearbox in the pouring rain in 25 minnutes or less
When you know how it's easy but until then it's not .............

 

[eightofthem]

As you mentioned, space might be a consideration,but in my opinion, I'd remove the engine and gearbox rather than struggle beneath the car.
Whatever you do, avoid using an air chisel and cutting up the surrounding metal for access as did the former owner of my TC !!

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I know, that must have been pure unadulterated frustration.
My first car was a Renault 12, the previous owner could not work out how to remove the front headlight to change a bulb, so he used an angle grinder to cut two rectangles out of the inner wing, so he could "get my and in ". Needless to say if failed its next MOT :roll:

 

[The Rovering Member]

It's a bit like how rally car mechanics can change a gearbox in the pouring rain in 25 minnutes or less
When you know how it's easy but until then it's not .............

Exactly, until the rally mechanic explains to you how he does it, after which, you know too.
The question was asked, the answer was given. Whether a person follows up on that answer is their own personal choice.

 

[DaveHerns]

I'd like to know how you do this "try doing a clutch on a V12 Jag XK without pulling the engine & gearbox" !

Car up in the air , engine hanging from a crane , front subframe removed ?

 

[Vern Klukas]

I'd like to know how you do this "try doing a clutch on a V12 Jag XK without pulling the engine & gearbox" !

Car up in the air , engine hanging from a crane , front subframe removed ?

Basically it involved a couple of access holes in tunnel (we filled them after with big rubber plugs, like the P6 ones but about half the size) so we could unbolt the gearbox. The gearbox was then supported and just moved backwards enough to gain access to the clutch cover bolts. With the clutch cover slid back on the input shaft that left enough room to undo the flywheel bolts, which was removed leaving enough room to get the clutch plate & cover out. There were a half dozen or so specially bent wrenches & tools to make it possible. There are details I forget now of course, it was the 80's after all.

Yours
Vern

 

[WarrenL]

...being under the car trying to lift and align the gearbox at the same time, it takes some finesse (and in our example physical fitness...) to succeed. Thinking and planning ahead always saves you the legwork. For example a correctly angled craddle securely mounted on a low profile trolley jack could possibly turn this work in a doddle, even for a debutant having to work at the side of the road. But how many of us are inclined to work like this in reality?

I dropped my blown BW35 out of the car by myself at home. But I shudder to think how difficult it would have been to get the ZF lifted in to position and bolted up if I hadn't had access to a hoist and proper transmission jack.

 

[OrganDoctor]

Of course no one has mentioned all the fun things you might see to do with the engine hanging free of the car on a hoist !!