Urgent help needed with tranmission install

RyanBrown · #1 (**permalink**) 11-24-2012, 05:46 PM

98 frontier 4x4 2.4. I am having a very hard time getting the transmission back into the truck. I have a transmission jack under the trans and it seems no matter how many ways I have tried to get it back in I dont have the clearance. The bell housing is hitting the body and we cant get the input shoft the clear the fingers in the pressure plate. Please help. need to get this thing back together tonight.

yellowbug · #2 (**permalink**) 11-24-2012, 06:24 PM

I have a vg engine but we had to put a jack under the front of the engine to jack it up alittle that point the rear down

RyanBrown · #3 (**permalink**) 11-24-2012, 09:05 PM

I finally got it in after fighting it for a while. Slide right into place though. Everything is bolted back up. Now on to my next problem which is getting that X-Fer case back on the trans. I have a trans jack but due to its awkward shape it keeps slipping off. I think the best way is for me to put the torsion bar cross member back in place and put the back end of the transfer case back on the cross member jack the front of it back to the rear of the trans.

**chainsaw** · #4 (**permalink**) 11-25-2012, 12:00 AM

Transfer case isn't that heavy. Pick it up and put it in.

Wanganator · #5 (**permalink**) 11-25-2012, 11:35 AM

i put mine on a piece of scrap metal and used the cross member as a fulcrum point and pulled down the metal whuch pushed tc up while my buddy put the bolts in.

RyanBrown · #6 (**permalink**) 11-25-2012, 06:22 PM

Well now that the job is done, the first thing that I noticed is that the clutch pedal feels very easy to push in compared to what it felt like with the OEM clutch. I tried bleeding the clutch but didn't really help. I really don't know if my slave is going out, or if the new pressure plate is a lot softer than the OEM style. When I first drove the truck it was shifting hard, and at times would get stuck in gear even with pedal pushed to the floor. After driving about 10 miles the trans seems to be shifting a lot better and not hard shifting. But still the pedal is very soft. I ended up having to use a 140 GL-4 gear oil in the trans because I couldn't find any GL-4 75-90 oil in town. Everything is a GL-5. Maybe the oil is to thick and causing the hard shifting at first. I really don't know. What do y'all think?

Wanganator · #7 (**permalink**) 11-25-2012, 06:36 PM

it took a while for my clutch to get back right after dis-assembly. that thick oil sounds like the problem. someone put heavy gear oil in mine and it shifted so rough when it was cold that it was scary. i drained it and put in half recommended and half atf and it shifts smooth as glass, no matter what temp now. transfer case calls for 100 percent atf anyways.