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Originally Posted by Daox
Alright, I worked on this thing for about 2.5 hours last night and... nada. That trans is not wanting to come off. I double and triple checked the service manual for anything that I may have missed. I looked over things in the engine bay thinking I might have missed a bolt. Everything looks fine, but that trans will not slide off. I've supported it, not supported it, wiggled it, hammered it. I'm not sure what I'll try next, but it sure is being stubborn!
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This is what I did. Just like you, I pulled wiggled and banged on it. At one point I had like a 6 or 8 foot section of steel pipe braced up against it that I was hitting with a hammer maybe my 8 Pound Hammer. Un really lucky I didn't permanently damage something. In the end I discovered some bolts, maybe just one, that I had no idea was still there. It's been over 4 years and I don't remember exactly where it was. Once I had it off though the transmission came off quite easily. Though some of the dowel pins can be a little stiff. The only thing I can recommend is really searching the seam between the engine block and the transmission housing with your hands all around it especially down low and toward the back, which is where I think I ultimately found the bolts I'm referring to: somewhere down low or on the back. My car Is a civic, as you know, but the 6th generation civic and the first generation Honda insight had more in common than might at first seem to be the case. Good luck!