anyone ever change a gearbox

[d_dan]

Anyone here ever chance the gearbox in a fto before? Holy hell its a lot of work. Took me 9 and a friend almost 9 hours

[steelroe]

Christ that is almost more time than a full conversion takes if I am reading correct. Was that 9 in total or 18 between the 2 of ye

The FTO is one of the easiest cars I have ever worked on. Now my old Dual Carb civic was a b***h to work on.

[d_dan]

It is a lovely car to work on. The whole removeing the intake phelumn is annoying but hey. (That was when I as doing the rocker cover gaskets)

It was the two of us working on it for 9 hours yea e took about half an hour in between for ourselves but yea 9 hours.

But there were 2 aspects slowing us down.
1 the only hoist we had as a 3 tonne trolly jack and a set of axelstands.
2 this being the first time we went near a fto gearbox.

I wouldn't mind but my clutch and flywheel were scortched not the clutch being gone so it shouldn't have even needed to changed

[Dragonheart]

Christ that was a big risk changing a gear box with just axlestands and a trolley jack. Suppose the stands are safe enough though, I had a 2 tonne jack fail on mine a few months ago but luckily she was only about an inch from the ground with the tyre back on.

[d_dan]

We bought the jack just for the job and the engine was also ankered to support beams that sat over the car