My dad called me this morning and said one of his friends is having problems with his tranny and asked if I'd swap it for him. I immediately laughed and said hell no.

1) Has anybody swapped one??

2) How hard is it??

The car is a 93, 3.3 liter so I don't really know much about it. My dad is kind of a tool so it might not be anything serious with it, but worst case is it will have to be swapped and I really don't feel like doing it (hell, i've hardly recovered from swapping neon clutches about 3 months ago)

 

Don't know, I doubt anyone is gonna know this. I would venture to guess it will be a pain. Aren't these engines actually mounted the correct way like a RWD car, but FWD?

 

I'm pretty sure they are. Maybe I'll go take a look and determine how bad it would be.

 

you should probably just go look at it and see how bad it would be.

 

Good idea. Maybe I'll just go look at it and see how bad it would be.

 

but freel dawg... the 3.3s are transverse mounted like normal. we got one in the back yard.

 

Then freel, how big of a pain is it??

 

dunno. we pulled the entire engine and trans. It was in a mini. I believe we had the front core support off too b/c it was wrecked.

 

they are a pain in the a$$ you have to remove the exhaust system than unbolt the craddle with engine/trans and unblot trans. if you have a car lift its a easy job if you don't than its a big job here's how i did it; lifted the car put a large bench table under car unbolt everything set engine/trans/craddle on bench lift car remove trans.

 

Thanks for the info, doesn't sound awful, but I think I'll pass on this one.