MTX 75 Removal and tips

[bigboyricky93]

Hello everyone,

I am pulling my transmission from the underside of my 1998.5 Contour SVT totake care of a couple of things that include replacing my clutch, pressureplate, flywheel, and my rear main seal on my engine. I’m now creating a list of things I must doto do this properly and safely. I haveread other threads, posts, and even other forums on how to do this type ofprocedure and decided to compile them here (there is a lot of differentiatingopinions out there lol). I only want tohave to do what is necessary for my circumstances and do not want to do moresteps or mess with other systems unless necessary. Hopefully those of you with more experiencecan help me out with this and also do it safely. My goal is to lower the subframe on the driver’sside but loosen it on the passenger side so I don’t have to drop the wholething and just remove the tranny through the driver side wheel well. Also, while I do this, would anyone beinterested in if I made a video on how I did this to help others and also forfuture reference??

Ok here we go

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1. Jack car off ground using four or more jack stands

2. remove front bumper and side skirts for more clearanceand less height to jack car

3. drain oil overnight

4. drain transaxle fluid overnight

5. drain power steering resv overnight

6. Remove battery and battery tray

7. undo suspension strut nut 5 turns on both sides

8. secure radiator from top

9. remove air cleaner

10. removewater pump cover

11. disconnectaccelerator and speed control cables

12. disconnectground cable

13. disconnectpwr steering res hose

14. disconnectVSS

15. disconnectfuel lines

16. disconnectstarter motor electrical connectors

17. removerair cleaner bracket and starter motor bracket

18. Removeclutch slave cylinder hydraulic pipe (Do I have to drain brake fluidovernight??)

19. removestarter motor

20. supportsubframe and engine from underside using hydraulic floor jacks and lumber andjack stands

21. removeleft transaxle support insulator and studs

22. removefour upper bell housing bolts

23. removefront wheels

24. removesplash shields

25. disconnectlower suspension arm from wheel knuckle and wiring harness bracket

26. removeright hand half shaft and intermediate shaft and secure out of the way

27. removeleft hand half shaft and secure

28. removeradiator splash shield

29. removey pipe

30. remove2ndary 3way cat conv

31. removeradiator support brackets

32. removeand reposition bumper bracket

33. removesuction accumulator

34. removeheated oxygen sensor

35. removeintermediate shaft pinch bolt

36. removefront roll restrictor

37. removerear roll restrictor

38. loosenpassenger side subframe bolts, remove driver side bolts

39. disconnectshifter cable brackets

40. removepower steering line bracket

41. supporttranny

42. removelower bell housing bolts

43. removelower front bell housing bolt and nut

44. removetranny

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Installation is reverse of removal, but also what kind of sealers andcompounds should I use when putting the various parts back together. Hopefully you all can help.

Thanks in advance.

[bigboyricky93]

Sorry my copy/paste from word left no spaces sometimes...

[svtguy27]

1. Jack car off ground using four or more jack stands
2. Remove wheels

remove front bumper and side skirts for more clearance and less height to jack car (not needed)

1. drain oil overnight
2. drain transaxle fluid overnight
3. drain power steering resv overnight
4. Remove battery and battery tray (I didn’t but if it makes things easier for you)
5. undo suspension strut nut 5 turns on both sides (only driverside needed)
6. secure radiator from top
7. remove air cleaner
   removal of water pump cover (not needed)
8. disconnect accelerator and speed control cables
9. disconnect pwr steering res hose and cooler hose from the rack and the 2 line brackets from the subframe
10. disconnect VSS and other transmission plugs located near the shift tower

disconnection of the fuel lines (not needed)

1. disconnect starter motor electrical connectors
2. Removeclutch slave cylinder hydraulic pipe (Do I have to drain brake fluidovernight?? No. Very little will actually come out and the brakes and clutch fluids are divided at a certain point so the level will only drop a little and bleeding the brakes will not be needed)
3. remove starter motor (this is optional)
4. remove splash shields
5. disconnect lower suspension arm from wheel knuckle and wiring harness bracket
6. remove right hand axle half shaft and intermediate shaft and secure out of the way
7. remove left hand axle half shaft and secure
8. remove y pipe with o2 sensor
9. remove secondary cat and mid pipe or support

remove radiator support brackets (not needed)
remove and reposition bumper bracket (not needed)
remove suction accumulator (The what?)

1. remove intermediate shaft pinch bolt inside the car
2. remove front roll restrictor
3. remove rear roll restrictor
4. disconnect shifter cable brackets or entire shift tower
5. Support the engine and transaxle with jacks and wood or support on the engine from above
6. Loosen the passenger side motor mount bolt as you may need to let the engine sag a bit
7. loosen passenger side subframe bolts, remove driver side bolts ( I just dropped out the whole subframe. It wasn’t that difficult to get back but will need two people or some creative jack work)
8. remove upper transaxle mount
9. remove bell housing bolts
10. wiggle that puppy out

[gomach1]

IMO its much easier/simpler to pull the engine and tranny out as one and then separate and replace whatever you want, bolt together and put back in.

[bigboyricky93]

so when you lower the subframe completly, the engine and transmission come down attached to and supported by the subframe or are the engine/tranny seperate from the subframe?

[rexxdoggy]

The engine and transmission is attached to the subframe via the roll restrictors in both the front and rear part of the subframe.

[CKtour98]

its honestly easier to pull motor/trans together thru the top

[Heywood]

I just created a thread for this last week (linky).
I would be very interested in pics etc if you can do it.

[bigboyricky93]

yea ill take quite a few pics, i believe in paying it forward so whatever help i get, id like to pass on to someone else who might want to do this themselves or not pay for labor.

[drivebymashing]

how is it easier to pull engine and trans??? this is isnt that hard of a job with hand tools in your driveway
i didnt drain oil or trans fluid
i didnt do half of what was on the list

hmm i think i put the clutch disk through the inspection hole