Who has acutally done one on this prelude? I'm going do do mine in the next couple of weeks and I'd like some advice on this. I'm pretty comfident between me, my two friends (one is a professional mechanic), and our full lift we should be able to bang this job out in a weekend.

Advice? extra things I'll need besides the clutch kit, and alignment tool? special tools?

I'm also looking for the cheapest deal on a factory clutch kit and alignment tool of someone knows where the best place to but this would be.

 

'97 BTW

 

This IS a hard job, and should not be done withouth the right tools an knowledge. But it sounds like you have a lift, and someone who knows their ****, so you should be fine.

It took me a FULL day to do mine, mostly alone, but i had a lift, and all the power tools in the world to use. But it is VERY time comsuming. So i think that if you have 3 people doin it, you should have no prob doin it over the weekend.

 

i did mine at the oceana hobby shop with a lift and everything you need. i did it alone and had never done one before. not even seen one. me, my helm manual and my cell phone (thanks Sam and Anthony!!!) i got it done in three days lol. but i took my sweet time, took lots of breaks etc.

 

are there any special tools I will need other than the obvious? Or any special parts/gaskets/anything that I will need that wouldn't be obvious either?

Also we don't have a tranny jack and I'm wonding if me and a couple of friends could just lower the car really low and use a regular jack, or possibly just a few of us pick it up and off?

 

yes, you should be able to carry the tranny easily (ok, mabye not easily) with just one or mabye two people.

You have a lift right?? just nothing to catch the tranny??

 

yeah lift but nothing for the tranny

 

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once you have the engine angled down have someone hold the tranny, undo the last bolt and take it off. easy as that. just make sure that the tranny will clear the chassis straight out or it will be a bitch.