...and it talks about removing the tranny and a lot of junk around that.

However in a straight swap scenario, you want to leave the tranny on of course. So what do you have to do to disconnect the tranny from the car but not the engine? Just the clutch and shift linkage? Drain clutch fluid? Thanks in advance.

 

just unbolt the slave cylinder, and loop it back around the tranny. un do the trans mount, take out the axles. undo the rubber lines going to the speedsensor,

 

We pulled the speed sensor out rather than disconnect, and disconnected where the clutch line goes to the tranny. Took a long time to bleed though. Thank goodness for speed bleeders!

 

I did some searching, came across this short thread, and figured it was time for some resurrection...only because I have question somewhat related to this.

I've gotten everything disconnected all the way to the last step (well, last two steps since I still need to disconnect the air compressor). Once I disconnect the compressor I'll be ready to hoist the engine out, but I was noticing how the air compressor line runs to the back (the aluminum hose). It runs above the transmission housing. Just by looking at the scenario, I don't know how the engine is supposed to wedge past this hose, because it won't flex all that much since it is metal (and I certainly don't want to break it)...I was thinking of doing something of a "teeter-totter" wedge, but the engine sits pretty deep in the bay and I don't see that working. According to my manual, it should pull straight out without having to remove the transmission first, but it looks like it should be removed.

I'm assuming you (satan_srv) got yours out, so I was curious if you had any insight on this. The engine I'm removing is coming out of a 5th gen, but I would think it would be very similar if not identical to the 4th gen...If anyone else here has removed their engine successfully, feel free to leave some input as well. Thanks in advance!

 

You notice how old his post is right?

You pull the trans out with the engine, but pull it out at an angle to clear that AC line.

You need a load lever to do it easily. I've R&R'ed Prelude engines at least 15 times, and I've never had to remove the trans to do it.

 

Looks like I resurrected an old member along with the thread, haha (don't see a lot of '02-'03s on here much). Thanks for the advice. I'll give you since they took away the beer mug icon

 

Holy cow......4 and a half years later......just like he said^^^^^^^^^^^ Ive done it 2 times this way with no problems.