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Postby Russellb » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:12 pm

One of the rear bolts has a sleave/ Coller in it
th lower coller is removed with 2 screw drivers in the the slots provided
the upper sleave has a thread in it to help the removal procese ( only in the NA6) the NA8 and NB's have no thread and I use a modifided Dyna bolt to Aid in the removal
Removing the PPF makes it easyer to get the G/Box out and IN
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Postby Fatty » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:23 pm

when we did my clutch, we didn't remove the ppf . we unbolted it at the front but just left it attached / hanging at the back . i can't really help with your questions tho as i was drinking beers and eating cornchips while the suckers err oops, mates who volunteeered to help, did all the hard work.
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Postby JBT » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:28 pm

There is no need to remove the PPF to R & R the gearbox.

All that stuff about inserting bolts is a mystery - wasn't required when removing the PPF at the diff end on my NA8 to do a TorSen swap.
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Postby meanmx » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:17 pm

Fatty wrote:when we did my clutch, we didn't remove the ppf . we unbolted it at the front but just left it attached / hanging at the back . i can't really help with your questions tho as i was drinking beers and eating cornchips while the suckers err oops, mates who volunteeered to help, did all the hard work.


As one of the suckers err mates who performed this task for Fatty, we left the ppf attached at the back and removed the 3 bolts (i think) at the front where it attaches to the gearbox. Pita to remove the gearbox around this but it is doable.

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Postby Sheck » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:00 pm

take the rear most bolt out at the diff and loosen the other, that way you can move the ppf over to one side easier.

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Postby devolutio » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:30 am

got suck on the same part a couple of weeks ago. knew i should have taken a picture when i finally got it out. you need a bolt larger in diametre (see manual) to go up bolt hole, hopefully screw into some thread on a sleeve that the standard bolt doesn't screw into, wriggle that larger bolt and pull it down to move the sleeve down just a little so it's not connecting the diff and the ppf... then if you're lukcy inscrew the larger bolt out of the sleeve. if it doesn't unscrew then theres a hold on the side there somewhere that you can screw a small bolt into to hold the sleeve still while you unscrew the larger bolt. get all that out and it comes out no prob.

really should have taken photos. the service manual didn't make any sense to me until i saw it with my own eyes.
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