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!

Was this due to a clutch change? Did you use a clutch alignement tool to make sure the clutch disk was centered?

 

Outside of that, try putting a socket on the crank and giving it a small turn to line up the splines.

engine swap.... Alighnment tool? I just put it back the way it came out. Now its a pain in the rear.

Can you give me some details, engine type, tranny type and car?

ea81 5 speed GL wagon 4x4

 

so theres a tool that lines it up for me?

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?

I am swaping for another ea81... I did have to remove the whole clutch assembly and transfer it to the new engine... So I may be shoving in vain because the plate isnt centered?

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

it's important that you use a torque wrench on the pressure plate bolts. i only mention this cause it sounds like you may not have put the clutch back on right.

Sounds pretty likely your plate is off center. With the engine that far in, use the fix that miles posted. In the future use the alignment tool and get it centered before installation.

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

 

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????

when we did TROGDOR's auto to 5spd conversion, we used the center tool, but our efforts trying to install the motor moved the clutch disc, so i had to resort to the described procedure to get it to line up