did you get the transmisson pulled?

 

I have everything off, and the.only thing I have left to do today is work on the.bolts. I gotta run up to the store to get the torx sockets for.the three top bolts. I'm hoping to get it done before I leave for work today

 

Well I have good news and I have bad news.. Good news is I didn't have to work today and I ended up getting the jeep trailered up to my girlfriends house. Her dad has a big shop with a car lift. So we put it up on there and got 8/10 bolts out, broke the 9th one loose (the external torx that holds the breather tube of the transmission) and then the 10th bolt is the other external torx on the drivers side of the bell housing. (the black bolt head a little up and to the right of the two clean bolt holes in the picture). that 10th one is the bolt I stripped today before I got up here :/ we have been using 12 point sockets all day though, and I just found out from odgreen that its an external torx. So tomorrow mornin I'll be borrowing a friends external torx socket set who lives by me (gresham) and driving back up to my girlfriends house (Vancouver/battle ground). just to get that one stupid bolt broke loose hopefully!!!

If I do get that broke loose then I'll have to wait til Saturday mornin when her dad is here to help me get it secured on the transmission jack and lowered down.

 

Here's some pictures of where the rocks hit the front frame cross member, tie rod, other steering components, and then.the diff. Its from when I rolled it, my front tire slid off the edge and then all those parts hit the rocks and.then.I rolled

 

Here's some pictures of the jeep up on the lift in my girlfriend's dads shop

 

That one picture is the jeep on his trailer leaving my house :/

 

Here's some of how the transmission is

 

Well shucks.. I used the external torx socket on the one bolt that I stripped, and I ended up stripping it more. Basically its just a round head now.

So some options I'm considering are:
-cut the bolt head, drop the trans, and then get the rest out some how.
-try to weld somethin to the bolt head.
-take out the entire engine.

Does anybody know of any special tools that are made for this type of job?? any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

one thing i did when i put my new engine in was swapped those two bolts with a metric hex head bolt

 

I was thinkin that'd be a smart thing for me to do. But now I'll do it for sure! why are those two the only ones that have external torx anyway?

 

My dad always says while working on any rig at some point... "its doing this just to make me mad"

 

Haha that's definitely how I felt the other day!

 

Try using a bolt extracter set like this one

http://www.matcotools.com/catalog/pr...EXTRACTOR-SET/

They come in different sizes and i'm sure tacoma screw or harbor freight has them. I've had pretty good luck with these types though

 

Well its been a little while since I posted on here. But I finally got that bolt out on the bell housing. And then got the new slave cylinder put in. So today I've been working object my new tail light housings!
I bought leds for on the back, and so now I'm cutting bending sheet metal to be my me back end! what do ya think?

 

Here's how far I got before I had to leave. I got one light spot cut out!