wow, what a good feeling. Just did my first tranny swap on a d series, took me and my buddy 16 hours but that was with food breaks, little field trip and some hardcore lagging, and of course figuring out how the hell to do ****. So cool to now know how to do this, corrcetly. To know where the bolts are at, what to take off first, last, and know how to do all that **** is ALLL worth it. Got in my car, threw it in reverse and traveled 2 feet and i started to giggle like a school girl! ANYWAY, just wanted to share my "natural" high with everyone else! For all those who havn't done a tranny swap, it's pretty simple if u just have the right tools, time and patience.

 

good to hear man

 

So what D have you got?
And what tranny did you swap in?

 

Congrats man, after this one because you now know how to angle the bolts, and what size bolts, and what to take out. There all cake after that. I felt the same way after doing my first oddysey trans., everyone after that 3 hours tops. Keep up the good work man.

 

Damn 16 hours!! I did a motor swap in less time than that...j/k (i did but this is a congratulatory thread ) . Congrats on your learning experience and new knowledge gained on hondas. More people should take example from you and start doing their own **** too, instead having shady *** shops **** their **** up, then have to come back to HT asking us what the hell is wrong with their car without troubleshooting themselves. Good luck with future car work!

 

Congrats, but damn, 16 hours? Hopefully you can cut that down to 2-3 swapping trannies with hand tools.

 

better safe hen sorry

 

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Congrats on the "conquering" the tranny swap . now that you know how to make it you can be the local "tranny guy" and make some money

 

4 hours on my first time

 

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Haha same here!

 

ya lil long to do the swap. but hey what ever floats ur boat. better than rushing everything and forgetting something.

BTW an average motor swap can be done in that amount of time. tranny swaps are about a 2-3 hour job for me. 1 hour for the bitch pin alone..lol

 

Happy Memorial Day H-T! Now you can cruise the beaches today. congrats.

 

good job, too me about 4-5 hours myself...atleast u did it right! congratulations!

 

nice

 

yea haha realize it's super long, but literally i just took my sweet *** time cus i knew it was gonna take forever. I musta spet like 2 hours on the bitch pin, until i finally decided to just drop the whole linkage instead of knock the pin out from underneath the car, the pin for the shift linkage. to do thattt, i had to drop my exhuast etc etc so it started to add up haha. but now i bet i could have that thing unbolted in like 90 mins to an hour, cus **** u know where every thing is. YEA im deff going crusiing, just need 4 cotter pins and some clutch fluid before i can do that. then i can take my mad 100 whp motor out for a cruise haha. would u believe i got rid of a bult b20 for this to be reliable, yet the tranny in the swap i got was fucked, so i had to do this haha, for half the hp haha. anyway it's been awhile to drive, and many, MANY rides to work, along with my ball joint breaking and my wheel almost falling off, yay. so yea just stoked it works but yea like someone said, you should really take the intiative to at leats try your own work. not a bad idea to have a buddy who knows what they are talking about a phone call away, but nohting feels better when accomplishing something that is extremely useful! Thanks peeps, and **** i think i double posted this in EF forum! what happens when u stay up 16 hours haha.

 

congrats my friend now you should make some money out of this and be the local tranny guy like someone else said.

after doing 15 of them 2 hours tops !!!
on the bitch pin it took a while at first

but now i made it My bitch pin !!! hahah

 

is that ur car on ur sig? congrats, I'll be doing my first engine swap in a few weeks.

 

congrats, hopefully i will take less time when i do my first swap but if not then its all good. like somebody else said, better safe than sorry.

 

nahnot my cra got a silver SI if u will, an ex with painted side skirts, grille, and si rims, soo clean. use to have a b20, how im d but yea my buddy needs to swap a stock motor into his hatch, so i think were gonna tyr and conquer that. good thing is he has a second car so this will be over a few days or a weekend. it's kind anice to have a garage with all the tools u need, really helps! only thing missing is a damn lift haha