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Krulle

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Ive bought a "new" gearbox becuase my got circlip att broke.

I thought the broken one was hard too remove soo now cant i
get the new one up, im going mad, my old S14 gearbox was easy too
romove and mount, but the S15 gearbox gota be bigger because its
soo f*ing tight......

I would really need some help pictures or anything.
 
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Yes it is bigger than the S14 because its a 6 speed.
Removing your exhaust and dump pipe will help:nod:
 
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I always split the exhaust at the downpipe to elbow joint, disconntect the hot pipe at the turbo, and the cold pipe at the throttlebodie, and jack up the engine from underneath so that it tilts the engine back, you can easily get at all the bolts and it makes it easy to drop
 
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Krulle

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I have the whole exhaust still fitted but thats
not the problem, i have disconneted the hot and
cold pipe and jacked up the engine soo ut tilts back,
but its still soo tight above the gearbox, the metal
over den gearbox is all buckled after my latest attempt.
But ill give it one more try today :)
 
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Disconnect the pipe connecting to the throttle body.
Disconnect the intake pipe on the turbo side.
Disconnect the cat from the front pipe

Pretty much hang off the front pipe which will tilt the engine back. Use a big block of wood to wedge between the front pipe and the chassis rail and that will keep the engine tilted back. The block of wood we used was 4-6 inches thick, which gives you an idea of how much you need to tilt the engine.

Make sure the gearbox has no oil in it.

When you try and slide the gearbox in, you might find that the bump where the starter motor is will be the part that gives you the sh!ts. You have to rotate the gearbox until you find a sweet spot for it to slide on past that point. In my case (we put an S14 box back it my S15) the gearbox was completely upside down when we put it back in.

Once its past the b!tch point, rotate it back around to the correct position and slide it onto the locating pins, at which point the gearbox will hold itself up and the block of wood will fall out as the engine tilts further due to the weight of the gearbox.
 
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