Need to borrow a transmission jack

Are you needing it for the w56? If so, I've found its easier to just get a Buddy (or even do it alone) and just heft it out. Its about as heavy as a tcase, so its not bad. If you're leaving the tcase attached, I'd get a Buddy Cuz it'll be heavy. I have tried it with a tranny jack but it was such a pain that we ditched it and just lifted it out.

If its the tranny on Clara, definitely use a Jack.
 
No, it's actually just the transfer case on the '85, and buddies are hard to come by on a sunday morning :).

Is it doable alone? The case I'm installing seems heavy enough that I'm not looking forward to trying to muscle it into place and hold it there onehanded while I try to thread bolts with the other... :eek2:
 
You can definitely do it alone. Remove the shift lever so its easier. Crawl under there and heft it onto your chest. Make sure the input shaft is pointing forward (toward the rear of the tranny). Then bench press the tcase up there. Slide it forward so the input shaft goes into the tranny. Once the input shaft slides in a few inches, it'll hold itself there.

Remember taking it out, how you unbolted it and it just sat there until you wiggled it back off the input shaft? Same thing here. The shaft will hold it in place so it won't fall while you're bolting the 6 bolts up.
 
I'm good, Spork, but thanks for the offer! And thanks for the reality check, Steve, that was stupidly easy - old one out, new one in, no one-handed weightlifting required. I'm a dork.
 
Don't feel dumb. Its better to ask than to be caught in the middle of a dangerous situation. Trannies are the same way, only lighter. Do you have 4.7s now?
 
I have 4.7s now! Or I will when I refill the trans and transfer case, Amazon is having trouble getting my spiffy Redline MT90 to my door.

The w56 is lighter than the transfer case? That's amazing to me. The A340 in my '86 had to be pushing 150 pounds, it was heavy.
 
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