all right so i got this thing basically like
70 percent of the way up right but my blue jack up here doesn't have enough lift
hey guys welcome back to the channel so if you've been following this maintenance project i've got
on my is300 sport cross here i've dropped the transmission changed the rear main seal changed
the oil pan gasket or replaced the foam replace gasket done some other maintenance under the car
while i had the transmission off today i'm going to show you guys how to put the transmission back
up by yourself with some jack so we'll attempt that today and we'll see where it goes stay tuned
first thing we got to do is get under here and reinstall the flex plate so the flex plate has a
spacer that you have to put in between the crank and the flex plate and then that spacer right
here or this washer goes on the outside and you'll notice on there that you've got your bolt markings
already there and everything and then we're going to put those six crank bolts or flex plate bolts
back in and torque them down to 61 foot-pounds for this car so i'll go ahead and do that now
so if you guys recall from my transmission removal video a couple of these brittle-ass slugs broke
on me so look at this one right here it snapped right down the middle and this one didn't really
fare too well either i want to pop these off now and replace the with the new ones i got from the
junkyard
before i get too far on getting these in here i forgot for the eight
flex plate bolts you got to put loctite on them it comes with an orange loctite from the factory
i'm going to put some loctite before i put it in there all i have is blue good enough for me
for to use blue and torque it down because i plan to take this off in the next year or so
when i do my manual swap and put a flywheel on here if you're going to do this permanently or
for a long period of time make sure you use the red loctite
so i got this baby torqued down to 61 foot pounds for each one of these eight bolts
i used this screwdriver right here to kind of wedge it so i wouldn't spin the flywheel or the
flex plate while i was doing it so now that i'm done right here i'm gonna get the transmission
under the car and try to get it in place and start trying to jack it in
all right so i got this thing basically like 70 percent of the way up but
my blue jack up here doesn't have enough lift to get me to line up and then this
red jack back here what i did was i actually aligned the mount back here to the second hole
so the transmission is actually back one hole right so i'm gonna lower this red jack i'm gonna
put my transmission jack that i had the adapter onto this guy and we'll get the transmission jack
under there so that way i can lift it higher and then maneuver it with just one jack after
that
do
oh yeah so after moving it back and forth to kind of get everything lined up perfectly i was able to
line up some of these bolts down here so i got the first few kind of hand threaded in so now i've got
actually three of them now and we're starting to close up the bell housing so here's where you have
to start being careful and just kind of slowly moving in you don't want to put too much pressure
on any one of these ears because you might end up snapping this a bolt or snapping the actual
ear because these are all aluminum same with back here once i get these kind of lined up
i'm going to start bolting up these four bolts right here for the crossmember so that way it's
actually supported and then we'll start easing these in one by one until we get a good tight
seal once we get that tight seal then i can start getting the rest of the bolts on top
so i got all the bolts for the bell housing the 14's underneath the 17s on the side i think i
mentioned on when i was taking this thing down that those top two ones i'm not even gonna bother
with those going back in i'm just driving you don't really need those top two ones i'll just
wait till i do my manual swap and worry about those even if i'm gonna put them in on the manual
swap i could drop those transmissions easier uh so i just put in the three 17s down here i've got
two more 14s for the starter i forgot to put the bolt in for the starter over here so i might have
to wedge the engine a little bit over to get that bolt to clear so it slides through for the starter
and then the top bolt of the starter is a little bit easier to get to on the other side when you're
laying the other way i'll show you in a second so this is the the side with the starter so there's a
bolt that goes right here it's a little bit long so it's hitting the firewall right
now so i have to drop the [ __ ] a little bit and kind of wedge it over with a pry bar or something
just to get it clearance and then on top there at the top there's another bolt that's you could
easily reach it here before the starter goes in so i have to slip that bolt in and then once i slip
that bolt in i can line up the starter hand thread it and then get the long extension to reach it
man after putting my hand trying to get it up there finally got that bolt on the top side in
and then the bottom one i had to wedge it with the pry bar and then kind of lift the front of
the engine off the engine mount for a little bit just to get there but both of them are in now so
now i gotta get the starter in and kind of start bolting that down and then that top bolt i have
to use my long extension to get it from the back with this bottom bolt i should be able to use like
a gear wrench or something to get it went ahead and pressure cleaned all the parts starter and
got all the grease and crap off of there got all the grease and everything off the exhaust
shields that are under the engine everything is nice and clean when i put it all back together
so now that we got the transmission up i reattached the starter over here what
i need to do is put in those six bolts for the flex plate to the torque converter right through
through the window in order to do that you do it just like the way you took it off so i got to put
it back in turn the crank and you got to torque those to 35 foot pounds once i do that i need to
start getting the brackets all mounted up i got to reconnect the hoses there's some brackets for
the hoses for the cooler the transmission cooler pretty much on the home stretch now on the install
man i seriously need a lift or something to work on this damn car the first struggle i had
down here was trying to get these uh flare nuts threaded into here that was a big pain in the ass
and then once i got those flared in and tightened up i started trying to get the lines back onto
their bracket and the front two lines were painted ass to kind of get in because they were all
bent out of shape and then this last mount that mounts right to the transmission here
it was all deformed and i was probably like two or three inches away from the
transmission as far as the lining being bent so i had to basically just two by four with a jack and
get it pressed right up against the transmission so i can tighten that bracket up and then to reach
the bolt i had to unbolt the dang header from the top so i had to un do those eight bolts
to the manifold i could swing it and get the 10 millimeter but finally got everything back in
place i did kind of crush this a little bit from before so i gotta probably squeeze it with some
vice grips or something to bend it back just in case it blocks any kind of flow uh this is pretty
much done down here drain any excess fluid that's been just floating around the bottom so i could
fill it up new and then get the rest of this car put together so now i gotta reinstall the
dipstick this thing has a little o-ring on it so this thing is probably the original o-ring
which i'm just going to replace it i have these generic number eight o-rings that are about
the same size so i might just replace it with that and then put this dipstick back in the car
so now that we got all the lines attached and everything's ready we're gonna go ahead and
reconnect the parking lever and then get the drive shaft back in here once i get the drive shaft and
i can start putting the exhaust and all the panels and everything else underneath back together again
so we got that shaft in here that was pretty easy slipping that into there and once you do that you
basically just hook up the mid shaft right here which is those uh 14s i believe or is this 17s
i forgot what they were but remember there is a washer above here between the frame and the
bracket and then there's a washer below and then back here you kind of got to slip this thing in
it was kind of tight i had to kind of work it in to just get it so it might be easier to try to get
that side in well actually no you have to do this last so you just got to maneuver it and just use
these little flex joints to sit in and get it past the lip there's a little lip that seats into the
actual uh differential flange this one right here i got to put a little bit
of loctite on the bolts i got my loctite right there because it comes with loctite
from the factory so i'll put a little bit of loctite before i tighten that back up
all right man we're finally done with this transmission got everything bolted up
last thing i need to do now is basically just go fill up all the fluid check the transmission
fluid i need to put some oil in the car charge the battery and start this baby up
so i filled up the oil with five quarts of oil i forgot what this car uses for capacity i'll
check later to see what it is and if i have to add more then i added about two and a half quarts of
atf type four the oem toyota type i can't really measure it so when you use that tube to fill it
the stick actually picks up a lot of the residual through the tube so i gotta let it all kind of
drain down to the bottom so i'll leave it overnight and i'll check in the morning see
what the level is and see if i need to add more i probably need at least three maybe three and a
half because i drained probably like another quart out after i had drained the initial mount out just
because we were handling the transmission when we took it on and off so it probably moved some of
the fluid that's in the gear back down through the pan so so i let this thing sit overnight i woke up
i checked the level on the transmission fluid and it was a little low so i ended up actually
adding the full almost four quarts in there it was probably like three and a half quarts that i had
and i filled it up right to the level where i needed to be when it was cold to have a
hot and a cold level the hot level is after the car is running and it's up to temperature
it should be a lot higher on the stick than it is when it's cold at the when it's cold it's just at
the very tip so i filled it up so that i think the transmission is good so unfortunately when
i took this thing for a test drive it looks like i still have a leak not as bad as before but still a
leak on the rear main seal uh got no luck with this car as far as that leak goes but i really
don't want to redo that leak hey guys thanks for tuning in all the way to the end of this video on
getting that transmission back in there as you can tell getting it back in there by yourself
it's not really as bad as it looks as long as you're patient and you have the right tools and
get the thing jacked up back and forth and just getting it up in there unfortunately i still have
that stupid rear main seal leak i don't know why if you guys have any idea what it could be
leave a comment in this video and give me some suggestions i really don't want to take
it apart i'm gonna probably just drive with it and just deal with it to see how bad it gets
if it really annoys me enough where leaving too much uh oil on the ground or wherever i
drive i might drop it again and just do the seal over again i read a couple of things online and
uh some people say it could be just anything it could have been just tapping it in wrong
or uh that the the rod bearings are worn out i figured if that was the case the motor would be
more vibrating out of center than it is but who knows i don't know i mean this is the
first time i've messed with this mode so if you guys found the installation part of this video
useful give it a thumbs up if you want to keep on following me on uh all the different things
i'm doing to this car go ahead and subscribe to the channel and i'll talk to you guys next time