RE: [ihc] Tools and trannies

["Jim Grammer" <jgrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nah, very necessary. Center of mass should be slightly aft of the tranny
center. The bellhousing is maybe 40#, t-case is what, 75#? Not quite evenly
counterbalanced. The real danger is the assymetry of the t-case wanting to
'roll' the whole works off the jack. It looks like running the tranny
mounting studs through a couple strategically located holes in the jack
adapter baseplate and nutting them up tight should do the trick. I can
always add a tab to one of the PTO cover bolts in a pinch.

BTW, the HF jack adapter comes set up with a spindle(goes into the
jack)that's tiny, for some cheesy floor jack they sell. I had to weld a
sleeve on the spindle to enlarge it for my Craftsman floor jack. Other than
that, it's fine. Keep in mind that I generally buy my HF stuff when its on
1/2 price sale(happens often), so I'm out about $25 for the thing. At
'regular' price I might be a little more critical ;) The tilt feature is
really what you're buying, but keep in mind that mechanism adds a good 6" to
the jack height. I have the SII *way* up in the air, and I'm not sure I
could get the tranny out past the frame rail on the jack. Fortunately I
don't need to, I'm going through this little exercise just to replace a
couple bucks worth of core plugs(and the rear main seal of course). :(

Last one I did by hand was the NP242 in a Jeep ZJ. Aluminum, relatively
light, still a pain in the keyster. Only dropped it once ;)

My right hand pinky finger still has some lingering nerve damage from having
a 727 dropped on it 8-9 years ago.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Borck [mailto:tborck@domain.elided]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:12 AM
To: Jim Grammer
Cc: ihc@domain.elided
Subject: Re: [ihc] Tools, tools, tools

If the trans and transfer case is going to be removed as a unit - I would
try and figure where the center of gravity (e.g aircraft pitch) is in
relation to the trans mount.  If the trans jack is going to try and tip
when loaded, that's not a good thing.

Not being familar with 4 speed/transfer case combos, my caution may be
unnecessary.
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Ted Borck	tborck@domain.elided