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tobsadness · 09-23-2022, 08:47 PM

Hi everyone,

In short: I've made mistakes, wondering how bad they are.

Background info: the throw out bearing completely went in my BRZ, and I thought I could drop the transmission, replace it and the clutch myself. I had some serious trouble getting the transmission on and off, and a lot of frustration-induced bad decision-making ensued. The car is back together and I went for a tiny test drive, but two of the bell housing connections are seriously messed up.

One of the nuts on the bottom studs started turning really hard about halfway through. I kept drawing it up, not knowing what else to do, and cracked a piece off the corner of the engine by continuing to draw it up. It's drawn up, but obviously that's bad. The piece that chipped off is the outer corner around the stud, I'd say it's maybe around the size of a nickel.

The bolt on the top driver's side will not draw up. It turned hard the entire way, but didn't know what else to do so I continued to tighten it. It's a ways in now and set up so bad I don't dare try to turn it anymore. The head of the bolt is maybe 2mm away from actually contacting the housing.

I guess I'm wondering how bad you all perceive this to be. I'm imagining there's a spectrum of bad-ness between "do NOT drive it again until you've fixed this" to "well, yeah, that's quite bad, but it is drivable, just take it easy".

The issue being that the car is currently my daily driver and only vehicle. I had planned to have another car before attempting this, but my new car is unsurprisingly very late to be delivered and the throw out bearing was completely shot.

Poor choices I know I made were A) prying excessively hard to pull the transmission off (it was set up on something else and I didn't realize it) and B) drawing the transmission back on with the bolts (couldn't get it to go back on otherwise and I still don't understand why).

Other miscellaneous info about the vehicle: 2015 BRZ, 100k miles, winter driven every year I've owned it. Supercharger and other standard bolt-ons. So needless to say it's not otherwise brand-new, if that affects the answer at all.

Thank you very much for the advice.

09-23-2022, 08:47 PM	#1
tobsadness Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2022 Drives: 2015 BRZ Location: New York, USA Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Messed Up Bell Housing Bolts Hi everyone, In short: I've made mistakes, wondering how bad they are. Background info: the throw out bearing completely went in my BRZ, and I thought I could drop the transmission, replace it and the clutch myself. I had some serious trouble getting the transmission on and off, and a lot of frustration-induced bad decision-making ensued. The car is back together and I went for a tiny test drive, but two of the bell housing connections are seriously messed up. One of the nuts on the bottom studs started turning really hard about halfway through. I kept drawing it up, not knowing what else to do, and cracked a piece off the corner of the engine by continuing to draw it up. It's drawn up, but obviously that's bad. The piece that chipped off is the outer corner around the stud, I'd say it's maybe around the size of a nickel. The bolt on the top driver's side will not draw up. It turned hard the entire way, but didn't know what else to do so I continued to tighten it. It's a ways in now and set up so bad I don't dare try to turn it anymore. The head of the bolt is maybe 2mm away from actually contacting the housing. I guess I'm wondering how bad you all perceive this to be. I'm imagining there's a spectrum of bad-ness between "do NOT drive it again until you've fixed this" to "well, yeah, that's quite bad, but it is drivable, just take it easy". The issue being that the car is currently my daily driver and only vehicle. I had planned to have another car before attempting this, but my new car is unsurprisingly very late to be delivered and the throw out bearing was completely shot. Poor choices I know I made were A) prying excessively hard to pull the transmission off (it was set up on something else and I didn't realize it) and B) drawing the transmission back on with the bolts (couldn't get it to go back on otherwise and I still don't understand why). Other miscellaneous info about the vehicle: 2015 BRZ, 100k miles, winter driven every year I've owned it. Supercharger and other standard bolt-ons. So needless to say it's not otherwise brand-new, if that affects the answer at all. Thank you very much for the advice.