EJ22 Removal advice

[Brat78]

About to pull the motor out of our 94 legacy. I have the four bolts at the bell housing off, exhaust disconnected, and center motor mount nuts off(2). Will it pull out at this point? My concern is the motor mount studs. Do I need to free up the crossmember as well or pull it as is?  Thanks in advance!

[johnceggleston]

auto or manual trans? this first.

 

you have to lift and pull forward.

[Steve W.]

Hi.  I just pulled one last week, and if your's is the same (5 spd. manual) you have to drop the starter & remove the threaded plug from that side of the tranny to extract the T.O.B. cross shaft.  A strange set up, the T.O.B. is part of the pres. plate, and won't let loose till you free up the release lever, which may come out with the engine.  Luck with your project, I'm about ready to install mine, maybe next week. Hang in,  Steve.

[torxxx]

take the nuts off the motor mounts and lift the engine up an inch.  if its a auto pull the TQ bolt out first, and when you separate the bellhousing the torq converter stays with  the tranny

 

 

 

  sometimes the bellhousing and dowl pins will be stuck together do you may have to hammer a flat head screwdriver down in the gap to start separating them.

[Numbchux]

Hi.  I just pulled one last week, and if your's is the same (5 spd. manual) you have to drop the starter & remove the threaded plug from that side of the tranny to extract the T.O.B. cross shaft.  A strange set up, the T.O.B. is part of the pres. plate, and won't let loose till you free up the release lever, which may come out with the engine.  Luck with your project, I'm about ready to install mine, maybe next week. Hang in,  Steve.

 

That is only for pull-style clutches. Which only came on turbo engines.

 

 

 

 

If you have the nuts off the motor mounts, they will just lift up out of the crossmember.

 

Support the transmission with a jack so the engine can slide off without binding on the studs on the bottom of the bellhousing.

 

And yea, if it's an automatic, remove the 4 bolts that hold the flex plate and torque converter together. There's an access hole on the top of the engine side, just to the passenger side of the throttle body.

Edited April 28, 2013 by Numbchux

[Gloyale]

Hi.  I just pulled one last week, and if your's is the same (5 spd. manual) you have to drop the starter & remove the threaded plug from that side of the tranny to extract the T.O.B. cross shaft.  A strange set up, the T.O.B. is part of the pres. plate, and won't let loose till you free up the release lever, which may come out with the engine.  Luck with your project, I'm about ready to install mine, maybe next week. Hang in,  Steve.

 

Sounds like a turbo car with a Pull clutch.  won't apply to his 94 Legacy.  And actually, you are supposed to reach into the housing, along the fork line, with a flathead screwdriver, and pry the TO bearing out of it's clip/ring in the pressure plate, before seperating the eng/trans.

 

 

To the OP in this thread, it will help to remove the "dogbone" mount from the top/center of the trans.  Eng can come out with it there, but it will be almost impossible to reinstall so go ahead and take it out first.

 

Then it's just lift and pull.  Make sure to get the little things too like heater hoses, hillholder cable, wiring for the Crank/Cam/Knock sensors (under throttlebody)

[Brat78]

Thanks everyone for the advice. It actually came out surprisingly easy. I have another almost ready to go in, and the other one will go into my 78 brat when I service the heads.