Skip to main content
Stesso

Install New Transmission and Driveshaft

11:29
29:51
35.2K views

At 11:29 in

1972 LSA Supercharged Monte Carlo: We Fixed It...Then Broke It Again BAD (Stranded on The Turnpike)

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

Position the new transmission onto the transmission jack. Carefully align the transmission with the engine block, ensuring the dowel pins enter their respective holes and the torque converter engages properly with the flywheel. Once aligned, slowly raise the transmission into place and secure it with the bell housing bolts. Reinstall the cross member, tightening its bolts to the frame. The drive shaft from the old transmission is too long, requiring a new driveshaft (or modification to the existing one). For initial testing, the old driveshaft is temporarily installed, leading to the U-joint needle bearings falling out.

Goal: Mount the new transmission and driveshaft to the vehicle.

Tools and materials

  • Driveshaft — Connecting the transmission to the differential
  • New Transmission — The replacement transmission unit
  • Ratchet US General — Tightening bell housing and cross member bolts
  • Transmission Jack — Lifting and positioning the transmission
  • Wrenches US General — Tightening bell housing and cross member bolts

What they say

Hide

sometimes you just gotta bang it so tanner helped me line it up stuffed it in i've been grinding in here by myself for like 40 minutes or something all that stuff's back in and if you freaking complain about not seeing a time lapse here's why i don't bother to do that you don't learn anything okay it's brainless entertainment there are some cases where time lapse may be beneficial or interesting to see here nuts and bolts not really i don't like that stuff i don't think it's useful so it's not going to be here plain and simple nah it's too long buy a good bit because you see the suspension's at full droop right now so when it gets compressed it's going to push the drive shaft into the transmission well i have it bottomed out right now pretty much bottomed out and it's too long still so that's definitely not gonna work all right so just monkeyed around for a while switching the u-joint in the back and the slip yoke in the front to the shorter drive shaft um it's got like a 1350 to a 13 10 i think because this is still like a stock 12 bolt yoke back here um we put some sticky tires on here may explode but i'm not worried about that right now just not i just want the car to work if we break it cool i know how to fix it uh i've broken the one on the escalade numerous times so whatever moment of truth time to stuff it in and see if it fits that's what she said i swear i always mess these things up i don't even care if it's not the right length or does anything stupid i'll take it to a drive shaft shop and have them redo it because i always freaking dick her up that new joints and crap i hate them well there go all those needle bearings every single one of them fell out you know what i'm just going to shove them back in there so i can put this thing on the ground and see if the length is even correct yeah i'm not going to run it like this there's going to be card in there from the evil bearings being on the floor but now we're just doing this for mock-up purposes i'm about to start throwing stuff i'm mad i hate filming working on things i'm being completely honest i don't like this one when i'm in the zone i'm just in the zone two videos working on stuff i spent all this time editing you know and i put time lapses in because you guys [ __ ] about it and they don't get honestly dick for views compared to other stuff so i'd almost rather not film working on stuff at all unless it's something noteworthy that it's like being built not working on things and…

Auto-generated from the video audio.