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Old 03-23-2013, 12:08 AM   #44 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by paulhale View Post
LOL...no we did it the dangerous way. We had a regular floor jack, my friend under the car holding the tranny up, and me standing up holding the tranny from above while I loosed the last bolts. A bit scary.
Swapped the transmissions today, using above described method. Took 8 hours with a friend. We first tried just using the floor jack to get in in position, after two hours doing that and failing, we had dinner and then got the thing into position in about 15 mins using the "dude-laying-under-the-car-and-bench-pressing-55-pound-transmission" method. Tomorrow I have the long list of reinstall projects to accomplish (cv boots, starter, exhaust, shifter linkage...) then I get to see if it will fire up and run right!
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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