456 Transmission Mounts

Has anyone replaced their own transmission mounts? Please tell me I don’t need to take the exhaust out! I have the bolts free on both sides. When I raise the tranny it hits the body (raising the car) before the bolt will clear the mount. The bolts won’t drop far enough because they hit the exhaust.

The exhaust has shielding on it so I don’t really want to lever it out of the way.

Ideas?

 

Nobody replaced their tranny mounts?

 

Was it hard to take them off? Think i can remove some hangars and get them out of the way?

 

It looks like there are two rear hangers holding up the exhaust. I think I will remove those to see if I can get the bolts out. Unless anyone else has any ideas?

 

Thanks. What you are saying makes sense from what I viewed underneath. The pipes have a little play in them as is. I figure if I drop one or both hangers I can get just enough for the bolt to drop. I will give that a go tonight.

 

Thanks for the thoughts. I'll take a look when I get in there and let you know what I find.

 

So I finally got the courage to crawl under and size it up. I'm afraid the hanger trick isn't going to work. The pipes are too fat and tight. So I'm going to have to drop the pipes. There is something I hate about exhaust work... I think in all my years I've never been satisfied with my results. Maybe this is an opportunity to change that. Anyway, I need some Seafoam or PB Blaster to loosen those nuts... So it looks like a weekend project.

 

Thanks for the heads up. I know some of the other folks in this thread have changed the mounts. Did you guys have to drop the trans?

 

Interesting. My transaxle is disconnected from my suspension right so it does not impede the upward movement of the transmission. That is only limited by the tunnel ceiling.

When I jacked the tranny up it seemed like there was enough room to pull the mounts out but I did not look that closely as the bolts did not clear the mounts.

Interested in what others who have done this will say.

 

I'm going to have to agree with Merlin & Canuck. There is not enough tunnel clearance to get the tranny mounts out. So I've come this far. Should I go all the way? What does it take to move the tranny? The rear suspension is loose so the only things holding the trranny in place is the drive shaft and shifter linkage. Which way does it go to clear the mounts? Back I would guess. It only need to go like 3-4 inches to clear the mount.

This of course brings up more mission creep. Clutch replacement anyone?

Or do I retreat and abandon the mission until I really need to replace the clutch? The tranny mounts don't seem to be in really bad shape like the motor mounts...

UGH!!!

Thoughts please.

 

So looking at the torque tube, there are 8 bolts at both ends (tranny & clutch). I think I can separate the torque tube at either end. So my question is which end is easiest/best? Maybe the clutch end? Then I just need to slide it all back about 4 inches and I'm good?

Sounds too good to be true.

 

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Tried to remove the torque tube bolts this morning. No way to get to the top bolts (front and rear) without removing the cats or the center resonator. This job keeps creeping. At this point doing the clutch is not much farther along. So do I retreat and wait for the inevitable clutch replacement? Or do I do the clutch now that I'm 3/4 of the way to the clutch housing bolts?

The clutch has 36k miles on it.

Ugh!

 

Good point. My clutch seems strong. But what about those tranny mounts? Going on 25 years now.

 

Good advice. Thanks