Pulling a mazda 5 speed out of a '92 f150

[motzingg]

I've got a line on a cheap mazda 5 speed in a '92 f-150. Problem is, its about 2 hours from my house and the guy doesn't have a cherry picker. Since my truck isn't on the road yet, i'm going to have to put this thing in my wife's subaru which means i can't bring a cherry picker out there.

Long story short, how do these things come out? I looked at my neighbor's '94 but its got too much junk still bolted on for me to tell. Do you pull the entire engine and trans, or can you get the trans out the bottom?

For someone working in the dirt with hand tools, how awful of a job is this going to be? An entire saturday?

Can two guys pick this thing up and put it in the back of a station wagon?

[eggman918]

I pulled one out of a 2WD F150 at pick ur part I had the helpof one of my daughters friends we pulled it out from the bottom,but the truck was close to 2' off the ground.
If you can get the front of the truck that high on at least one side you should be OK. You can remove the shiftier boot and the stick can be removed to help with clearance.
I would try to get the drive shaft if you can so you will have the slip yoke. I think you will like that transmission. It can be handled by 2 people and took us about 2 hours to pull.
Good luck and happy hunting.

[motzingg]

super! that's exactly what i was hoping to hear. from the outside dimensions it doesn't look that big, but sometimes you end up with some crazy welded-in crossmember or something silly.

its already behind a 4.9L, so i'll be grabbing the whole bellhousing, clutch, etc.

haven't even thought about driveshaft yet, good point!

[eggman918]

The bellhousing is an integral part of the transmission and that is why you need to get the truck up high enough, you might want to bring some timbers to use to block the truck up
high enough and secure enough to be under it and clear the frame.

[motzingg]

oh yeah, duh.

i think a couple jackstands and a handful of 4x4's and a floor jack should get it. maybe a pallet so the floor jack can roll if i have to do it over dirt or gravel.

are there any odd sized or large fasteners that i should be prepared for? like you get the whole thing out and have one damn star drive bit holding something on?

[eggman918]

I cannot remember any odd tools needed I have a 30 cal ammo can I use at the boneyard so we didn't have a lot of tools with us.

[averagef250]

I've pulled quite a few of them and remember they were easier than most to remove.

Get all the hydraulic clutch stuff if you can. I think '92 had the master cylinder bolts outside the firewall, but 91 and odler had them on the inside- A real bear to get to sometimes. I bought a special snap on 13MM swivel extension socket just to pull those buggers.

Remove the shifter from inside the truck, but you also need to pull the shift stub from the transmission to drop it through the floor IIRC. To remove the shift stub you need the proper size Torx to get the 3 screws out. If you don't pull the stub you can try jacking the front of the engine up as far as it will go to get the tranny down far enough.

They're a little tranny. 2 guys to carefully lower it to the ground, but one guy can easily toss it in a trunk.

[mmerlinn]

One person can easily move the transmission once it is out of the rig. The whole transmission weighs less than any automatic transmission and they only weigh between 100 and 140 pounds without the converter.

Most transmissions can be moved around by one person. Even though I am past retirement age, I can still manually pick up even the larger automatics (E4OD for example) from the floor and put them on the bench.

Getting them in and out of the vehicle is a different matter. If you can, use a jack or get some extra hands to help you. Even though it weighs less than 100 pounds, it is very easy to get hurt if it falls on you.