I swapped in a my lx flywheel onto my y7 cause I heard to use the flywheel and clutch that goes with the tranny plus the y7's flywheel had some pretty bad heat spots. I don't have a clutch alignment tool and is there any other way to align it without one?

 

yes by going and buying one

 

call around...you might find a local tranny shop that will let you borrow one. i did that on saturday!

 

there is a universal allignment kit out there. its basically a bunch of spacers and collets etc. or go to honda and get one.

 

I would definitely just ask a Honda mechanic or someone who deals with them, they may have an extra one laying around from a clutch kit. Visually, maybe its just be me, but you can see when its off or when centered. I know when I've been just slightly off, the tranny won't mesh with the block. So just get a tool from a shop or buy one- they are cheap

 

I have used a broom stick and eyed it before, but I have done a couple clutch swaps.

 

i just stuck my finger inside and sorta lined it up and jammed the tranny in. worked fine....just line it up by eye

 

You can align it by eye, but you better get it close, or you will struggle to get the tranny on.

 

go to the parts store it is worth a couple of bucks to not go through the pain of trying to force fit it.

 

...Struggling with a 80lb chunk of metal is no fun either.

 

be sure to take your clutch.
in my brother's zc swap the clutch was for a 89 crx (he wqs using the crx tranny) and we got the wrong clutch tool wrong twice?? i was like wtf?? we took the cluch and the correct part was for some GM clutch. go figure?

 

you could just eye it. I've dont that alot of times when I didnt have the alignment tool.

 

just eye it... its easy enough. but if you plan on taking a couple clutches apart may as get you own. they are cheap anyway.