I was brainstorming on how it might be easier to do a clutch job in an Evo. It hit me, why not pull the engine? Am I wrong to think it just be easier to pull the engine than to try to drop the transmission? I am working from my garage at home and feel alot better about pulling and engine up than dropping the transmission down. What do you guys think? I would also give me a change to clean up my engine bay at the same time.

 

dude you have any idea how many things you have to unplug and then try to plug back again in the same place and not mess anything up? Try looking in the how-to's or evomoto there's a good DIY for replacing the clutch.
I think it's definately easier to do it from underneath, pulling the engine is too much.
Just my opinion.
Ed

 

NO WAY. pulling the engine is easy but not that easy. I can tell you the easiest way to do the clutch. You do everything like you normally would except remove 3 of the 4 subframe bolts, the one closest to the steering column you want to loosen as much as possible but leave it there. then remove the radiator. Then when you are ready to lower the one side of the motor have a ratchet strap attached from the turbo to the rad support and pull it forward about an inch, sometimes more. You would be amazed what pulling the engine an inch or so forward will do for you. Makes it more time consuming than frustrating.

 

Plugging things in their right place is pretty trivial and is the least of my worries. There are far more horror stories about pulling an engine versus pulling a transmission. In a Subaru it is far easier to pull out an engine and do a clutch than the transmission. Just a though.

 

No matter how you look at it, it will not be easy if you have never done it before. Very time consuming but I wouldn't recommend pulling the engine.
Pulling the sub frame though helps give you some extra room to wiggle things back in place

Good luck

 

I really hated replacing mine, but do there will be more steps to pull the motor out. Yes you're one motor mount away, but theres the whole engine harness that is plug by plug, and not like other cars that can be unplugged in the engine bay. a/c and p/s accessories will need to be removed. and more. its just a big no IMO. check this out if you need help. I literally had this on my iphone while doing the install the whole time. hahaha.

http://www.evomoto.com/tech_articles..._article_id=27

 

I just did my clutch by pulling the engine and it took me a full day to get the engine out and a day and a half to get it back in. Made doing the clutch really easy though. To me the hardest part of pulling the engine was getting the transfer case off and back on, other than that, it was easy.

I watched my buddy do my transmission and decided I would never try doing it with the engine in the car hah. I think a few of my subframe bolts are crossthreaded now too because of that crap, so I will never be messing with my subframe.

Having said this, you will take quite a bit longer to pull the engine, but it's worth it to me not to have to wrestle with the transmission in tight quarters. I prefer to take longer if it saves me headaches.

 

I am with that school of thought. What took so long on the transfercase?

 

Well either way you have to remove the transfer case, so it's a mute point, however, a person gave me an idea that I might try next time. He removed the engine and transmission with the transfer case still attached, by sliding it off the driveshaft.

If you can't get that to work though, the hard part with the transfer case is mainly getting it to line up and go back on the two sets of splines. It just takes a lot of wiggling and pushing. Taking it off actually isn't that bad, just need to use a pry bar.