Anyone know of a detailed clutch install instruction? I am trying to do it myself. Please help if you can.

 

I was thinking about writing one up, but that's a pretty involved undertaking. You can always buy the shop manual, it's a good reference. However even it doesn't go into much detail on how to do a lot of the steps.

 

Just do a search for clutch install and you will find the basics. Superz has written a few things and a guy called Honda Ghandi put up some good pics. You do not have to drop the crossmember, but it would probably make taking the tranny out and reinstalling much easier. You do not have to take the transfer case out of the car, you can tie it up on top of the crossmember. You really don't want to take it out, it can be a pain in the butt trying to get it past the oil pan. An engine hoist is just about essential, or at least something to hold up the engine from above. You need a jack to support the tranny when it comes down, do not try to rodeo style it. I am 6'2" 240 and not fat...trust me. It is not all that hard to do though, it's just nuts and bolts, but get at least one other person to help and prefferably two. Don't forget to use a slide hammer to get the shaft out of the drivers side, the tranny will not come out otherwise.

 

I took some notes while I did mine, but never bothered putting them on the web. I also took quite a few pics.

The only gotchas I ran in to were the following:
1. Getting the throwout bearing to release was tough with a screw driver. I should have used a wider crow bar.

2. Leave the t-case attached until after you get the drivers side axle out. It wouldn't come out until I bolted the t-case back to the tranny.

Other than that, it is very straight forward. I did it in my garage on jack stands and never had anyone's help. I just used a jack to lift the tranny and it stabbed very easily. I think it took me about 6 hours of actual work , but I am sure I could do it in 3 now that I know what to look out for.

I'd say it is comparable to a 2G DSM tranny. Not horrible, but I wouldn't want to do it every day.

 

where do i begin...well first i bought a clutch masters stage 3 which is now installed. it took me about a month to put it in myself but it saved my a crap load of money.
1.take off the two front tires, brakes, and rotors.
2.then you have to buy or rent a slide hammer to pull out the axle
3. now the First hard part. after removing the intake, battery, and the 3 upper pieces of the IC piping, you have to take out all of the engine mount bolts. some of them are extremly hard to get to.
4.next take off the down pipe so that you can get to the front diff. once you get to it take that off.
5.DRAIN THE TRANS FLUID
6.start to find the bolts to the trans and remove. once the trans is out pry open the gasket part of it to get to the clutch.
NOTE: after taking a part the gasket you may need to replace it.
7.once the trans is in two the clutch bolts off, then replace and the hard part put it all back together.
i hope that this helped cause its working for me and it saved me $945 of labor at mitsubishi to put it in.