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AAaargh.... Why won't it fit?!?!?


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Any tips on getting the tranny and the engine to go together, I adjust and adjust and adjust the friggin little threaded bolt deal coing out the tranny and wiggle and push and reposition and lift tug pull shove and AAAAARRRGGHHH the little bastard WILL NOT fit in!!! Help Please!

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The clutch alignment tool is a plastic version of the tranny's shaft. You put it in and it centers the clutch disk exactly so that when you tighten down the pressure plate bolts and remove the tool the tranny shaft will slip right in. If the disk is off center it can be very difficult to impossible to get the engine on.

 

Did you remove the clutch at all for the swap? Are you swapping in another EA81 or a EA82?

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keep the presure plate bolts loose enought that you can move the clutch disc by hand, but it will stay in position.

 

then mate the motor, and with the starter out, you can tighten the PP bolts in equence after the motor is mated, and before you put on the starter

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Yaya... how about those allignment tools... sure is easy when you do it right :headbang:

 

So those three bolts on either side that hold the intake manifold to the block.... Is it really important to have all three... would two and a broken off stump work????

 

As well I have two large lines running from a can in the back of the engine to close to the oil filter... one threaded into the deal with the oil pressure sending unit... the other baffled me for a while I couldnt see where it had come from.... then I looked at my old engine and there was a makeshift hole drilled in the oil pan, and this line more or less glued to it. The new engine has no such hole.... I have a drill.... and some glue. its not just another one of subarus unnecesary parts is it????

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