Never had a problem putting the tranny back in, then again, I have a hosit
and a tranny jck to work with.
put it in the car then bolt up the tranny. make sure the engine is tilted back and then slide it on in a angle. not sure why your haveing so much trouble.
Was the tranny attach to the engine when you bought it or was in two seprate peices?
-deez
you have to put it in gear so when you spin the drive shaft it will turn the input shaft. if it is nutrel than the drive shaft will spin freely and nopt move the input shaft.
I have no idea why you are having so much trouble either 
I seperate engine and trans all the time, pull the clutch to inspect, either install a new one, or re-install teh old one, and slid eteh engine an trans back together. I have never had a problem, and I do it alone.
I’m not sure why you are lifting teh tranny? Where is the engine? it should be sitting on teh floor. Put a 4x4 under the rear part of the oil pan so that the trans can slide on. On lifting required, just proper allgnment and some jiggling.
Someone asked a very good question… were the engine and trans bolted together when you received them ? If not they may not be a matched set and you could have a problem with dowels… There are two dowels that help allign the engine block and tranny… if you have one in teh engine and one in teh tranny that are hitting each other then it won’t go together. I always put them in the engine block as this helps hold the adapter/spacer plate in position too.
The guy who’s havon problems dputting th trans he removed back in…
It’s probably that you don’t have the engine tilted back at all, or enough. I usually tilt it back as much as possible and hold to there by jamming a 2X4 between the oil pan and the cross member.
-Martin.
i have the input shaft through the whole and about a 1 inch gap between the bellhousing and engine. i have it lined up and the gap is even all the way around yet it wont go any further. i have been trying since saturday to line the teeth up and get it in and have had no luck. i have realigned the clutch several times and still no go. is it possible that i didnt put the pilot bearing all the way in and it is hitting it? i think im going to take everything apart this weekend and try again 
Anything is possible… apparently 
This is the first time you mentioned anything about changing the pilot bearing… what else did you change?
Pull everthing apart and start again. Check teh teh pilot beraing isn installed fluch with the end of teh crank. Measure the end of teh input shaft and teh inside dimension of the pilot bearing - maybe you were given teh wrong one - it happens! Make sure the disk fits your input shaft splines, maybe it’s wrong?
Allign the clutch with the tool, tilt teh engine and put it all back together!
Jeezus… this should be a 2 to 3 hour job!
-Martin.
yea i know. this whole thing is quite embarrasing :oops: