Replaced my tranny this weekend

[nonamekid]

So I did decided to replace my 5-speed tranny this weekend. The old one was chattering. I was able to get one from anomoly40, so thanks to him my car is working again. I had the tranny out of the car in an hour and 15 minutes. I didn't realize they came out that quick. I drove the car out of the shop in 4 hours completely done. I was pretty excited. I had never had anything go so smooth working on a car. I took my time putting the car back together. And it always takes longer to put it back together then to take it apart. Thankfully I had access to nice parts washer and was able to clean the subframe. It looks much nicer. I also cleaned a couple of other things. And I found a socket stuck in the mud/junk in the subframe. I love free tools.

Anyway, I was refilling the tranny and spilled a little fluid on the fender. When I wiped it off, it made the fender shine and look new again. Is that bad for the paint? But just the little rubbing made it look great! Can I do this to my whole car? Or should I use a wax? Because if I can make the car look like that one section of the fender, I am definitely going to get to work.

On a side note. Is anyone interested in a full writeup on how to remove the manual tranny? I can give a full detailed removal process, if someone is interested and then we can put it in the articles section.

[anomoly40]

Glad to see the transmission put to good use.

[quaddawg]

Yeah, do the write up, I am getting ready to do that.. I have my replacement tranny sitting right here by the couch!!!

[stefan]

dang! you beat my record by an hour

if you need any input on that article let me know, ive removed 3 and installed 2 in the last couple weeks

[monkeyracing]

Yup, tranny fluid will make your car shiny...and it will attract dirt like crazy. Wash it, de-grease it, wax it.

[nonamekid]

I will start the write up. I will post an article in the other's articles section and then feel free to post there and we can improve it.

[nonamekid]

OK. I have wrote the article. While writing the article I realized that if someone wrote the procedure on how to change the clutch it would complement this write up. I can do the clutch write up, but I haven't not replaced a festiva clutch for about a year. I did not replace mine because it had less than 3000 miles on it. Also if we cut out certain steps I could make a procedure for how to replace a CV axle.

Anyway, go through the article and see if there are ways we could improve it other than pictures. I didn't take any while I was doing it. IF someone else wants to take pics they are more than welcome too, or I could go get specific ones if people are interested.