turbomini
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I replaced my clutch last 2 weeks ago, pretty easy really. It took me about an hour to get the trans out, but I have done this many times on various vehicles, this is a pretty easy vehicle to do it on. For the upper two bolts on the bell housing, wait until you've already undone the trans mount and can lower the tail shaft a little. This will make more room to use a combination of extensions to get to the top two bolts undone. Then to remove the trans I found it easy to get out if you push it back to separate it from the engine then rotate the top toward the right hand side of the vehicle, then lower the front and pull forward to get the tailshaft out.
It wasn't a problem on my truck, but sometimes you need to be aware that when the back of the engine is lowered down the lower fan blades may push into the radiator.