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White-GMC 94’ STC 330 N14

Bumpsteer

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Last trans r&r I helped on.....we took out the passengers seat, removed the bucket from the backhoe and stuck it in the cab. Chained off to the trans.... lowered it down on plywood, slid it out. Installed it the same way.

Yea, there was a whole lot of beer involved.

Ed
 

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Last trans r&r I helped on.....we took out the passengers seat, removed the bucket from the backhoe and stuck it in the cab. Chained off to the trans.... lowered it down on plywood, slid it out. Installed it the same way.

Yea, there was a whole lot of beer involved.

Ed
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I would of done the same thing except the hole was about 4 to 6 inches in diameter, wait a minute if I lined it up right under that said hole :eek:
 

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I would of done the same thing except the hole was about 4 to 6 inches in diameter, wait a minute if I lined it up right under that said hole :eek:

I used a harbor freight jack when I did the Allison swap on my old international, borrowed from my father in law. It worked, though his tilt adjustments seemed awfully precarious, Sloppy, undersized. We kept our distance as best we could, and had cribbing available and placed to catch a falling load.

My grandpa has a large floor jack with a big flat plate attached. No tilt adjustments. The jack easily handles the load, but it's a pain lining up the input shaft without the tilt adjustments. Lots of wooden wedges and manhandling involved usually.

I have seen a guy use an engine hoist slid in through the passenger door with a chainfall of some sort to drop and pick a trans. It would be similar to how @Bumpsteer did it, minus the backhoe.

All that said, I would own one like the pros do if I were doing transmission and clutch work frequently.
 

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I used a harbor freight jack when I did the Allison swap on my old international, borrowed from my father in law. It worked, though his tilt adjustments seemed awfully precarious, Sloppy, undersized. We kept our distance as best we could, and had cribbing available and placed to catch a falling load.

My grandpa has a large floor jack with a big flat plate attached. No tilt adjustments. The jack easily handles the load, but it's a pain lining up the input shaft without the tilt adjustments. Lots of wooden wedges and manhandling involved usually.

I have seen a guy use an engine hoist slid in through the passenger door with a chainfall of some sort to drop and pick a trans. It would be similar to how @Bumpsteer did it, minus the backhoe.

All that said, I would own one like the pros do if I were doing transmission and clutch work frequently.
Beautiful thing about this transmission swap is the transmission bell housing is the rear of the engine motor mount. So go in at a tilt of about 3 degrees or less downwards and tilt the engine upwards to line it up, be like letting it fall in at controlled pace.
 

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After a days worth of work of building it and trying to get it under then lined up it’s not going to work. The plywood is too soft to roll on even on grates and prying it forward just wants to tip. So back to drawing board :mad:F7768A9C-485F-46F5-A55B-948E3D310633.jpeg653FDEA9-62CE-4D48-BAF4-13D5317A503C.jpeg
 

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And by all means get a ratchet strap around it, if it rolls off the jack, it'll be bad.
Yeah I did that after the picture and all transmissions I have ever pulled, though thanks for looking out for me.
You can place thin steel plate on top of the plywood and then roll, if that's your only hang up.
At one time I would have readily stuff available, I can't even find a board to block anything up around here. Just think of it this way 1200 miles from your shop/home doing this with only tools onboard, that's about what is here. Yeah I can get things but whatever I get it's got to come with me. I will fight it up there, just irritated doing this in the 30's in water/mud.
 

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Anyone got some marshmallows to roast as I wait for this engine mount to burn off? Didn’t feel like cutting it off with grinder after it getting everywhere nor fighting to unglue it so burn it!8A4F5F05-8A0F-49D4-B7F9-DE39B6A2EFA7.jpeg
 

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You'd better be careful, the emission police catch a whiff of that and you'll be in troooooouuuuble....:rolleyes:
There is none here, not even vehicle emission requirements. Actually had local sheriff called on me one time in Texas for what the "ashole" neighbor thought was me burning copper, turns out it was just a skunk that got ran over half mile up the road. They came and paid me a visit is why I knew, another time I got called on for small camp fire by same neighbor. Female deputy came out and guessed she didn't like me, called the local fire department out and they came out and looked at her and said, you called us out here for this o_O Such fun times in life.
 

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You’re a menace to society, can’t believe you have the nerve to burn that on soaking wet ground with all those soaking wet leaves around....:D
I had second thoughts of burning it where it sat on the transmission on the ground underneath the semi, but then I thought of the smell that would emulate into the cab and never come out for awhile.:eek:
 
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