My Clutch Install Story w/ pics
 

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man, never let a family anything work on your car. I think you should get him to replace anything he broke or damaged, especially the tranny.

if thats the tranny mount thats cracked in one of your pics your screwed! why not just pay someone or someplace $400 to put your clutch in if you can't do it yourself?

awwwww!!!! that looks terrible man!! i feel sorry for u man.

if the tranny is cracked.. he needs to buy you a new one.

some more pics...

All i can say is WOW...

i asked joe if that part matters, he said it doesnt. When we put sealant on it and bolted it to the T/C, it didnt budge 1 bit and theres no oil circulating thru the broken area, its just exposed to air. Should it matter?

You actually think sealent is going to hold that piece of aluminum in place?

you dont like your car do you? :(

Theres nothing that a little bit of JOB Weld cat fix! :rolleyes:

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I thought my clutch installation this was fun! I wil lpost the story once we finished. But you can know now that none of my component got scratched up like that. and after we refilled al lthe fluids I left no single bolt un attached or not torqued to spec.
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and no the cheapest place quoted $520 for labor and most expensive guy wants $800.
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this post made my weekend a joy :P

yea we were thinking of getting aluminum weld today at a weld shop and weld it along wit the sealant, but it held prettty strong, i guess ill just buy the weld today since he already has a welder. BTW: THe tranny is made of cast aluminum correct? I really feel sorry for my lil baby right now...feels like shes in surgery and barely holding on!! I need all the advice i can get. Help me save my baby!

Well first off the radiator should have came out first. Second the TC should have came off along with the axles (i never have had to use a slap hammer to get them out i just you a flat head screw driver and they pop right out. Third you should have drop the engine out through the bottom of the car. That makes thing a million times easier!!!. Man im sorry about the tranny!!! Try and find someone to weld it for you but that sucks! Hope everything works out. And it is possible to do the swap in 4 hours. I pulled the engine out pulled the tranny off and retimed the whole engine in about 4 hours. Of course it was the 3rd time i pulled a engine out of the EVO so you start to catch on. Well anyway GOOD LUCK!!

Chris

the cheapest place is in riverside in SoCal for 300 and i heard he has experience wit awd installs, and the most expensive is the dealership for 1200

do you have to take out the whole engine just to replace a clutch? :confused: