mcmopar said:
Remember whichever way you do it to place a couple of plastic bags over the tailshaft of the trans to catch the trans fluid that will come pouring out. I usually use some kind of Qt. sized storage bag (2 actually - one inside the other) and tie them on with string or wire. When you lift that tranny up the fluid will come pouring out all over your nice clean garage floor if you don't. Either that or place an oil drain pan under it and slowly lift the engine/trans and allow the trans fluid to drain into the pan.
Johnny-Boy, what kind of shade tree operation do you run over there??? Good lord.
Trim, get yourself a Lisle 23400 tranny plug kit. It'll run you about $8 - $14 at most parts stores. it will plug anything you want, including A833's and A727's. Leave the plastic bags to the Neanderthals driving blue ovals....
Personally, I keep spare yokes around just for this purpose; just slide one in and zip-tie it on. But I also have the Lisle kit for those rare ocassions when all of my yokes are tied up.
As for the out the top versus out the bottom discussion - if you ever take one out the bottom and reinstall it that way you'll just want to throw rocks at the notion of ever doing it out the top again... :yesnod:
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