Last night, I went ahead and get started with the biggest part of re-assembly:\u00a0 Putting the\u00a0 transmission in.\u00a0 The first step was to get the new axle seals installed.\u00a0 The document that I found on the web took great pains to mention how hard it was to pry out the axle seals.\u00a0 They lied.\u00a0 I used a 24″ tire iron and easily removed both seals without the prybar touching the case of the transmission.\u00a0 Putting the new seals in was easy — I used the iron pipe-based Honda Odyssey crank-holding tool that I built as a seal driver.\u00a0 Come to think of it, though, I thought I bought a seal driver set at one point, hmm.\u00a0 Anyway, the hard part was getting the transmission in.\u00a0 I tried a couple times and then decided to go to bed.\u00a0 I’m thinking that I might build a wooden cradle to sit on top of the tranny jack to hold the transmission at the right angle, because the jack I have is designed for longitudinal-mounted transmissions, not transverse transaxles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night, I went ahead and get started with the biggest part of re-assembly:\u00a0 Putting the\u00a0 transmission in.\u00a0 The first step was to get the new axle seals installed.\u00a0 The document that I found on the web took great pains…
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