General Homemade gearbox removal clamp

Tencentlife

From here: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=399173

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I made this up just for vanagon trannies to make one-man installs easy. It has a fore/aft slide adjustment for balance; the CG of a 2WD is way different than a Syncro so that can be corrected. And it has a tilt adjustment that leaves some freeplay to wiggle the trans when it's being mated to an engine. The whole thing bolts to a spare floorjack. Works nice.

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Aidans version

Gearbox removal brackets Thanks To Aidan for lending me the gear and allowing this to be reproduced. These allow you to remove the gearbox with it attached to something solid so it doesn't fall off and injure you or worse your gearbox. It also allows some freedom of movement to wiggle the box past the various bits. I was removing a Syncro gearbox but it can be used for 2 wheel drive boxes as well. VW made some lugs and holes exactly for this purpose. It uses an upper ball joint and some 6mm threaded bar bent to suit.

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Underside jack mount. This bolts through the Jack and holds the whole shebang together. The flat bit of metal is a washer to prevent the locking nut pulling though the hole on the jack note the rubber "boot" to prevent the metal locking together under the weight (used upper ball joint.)

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Gearbox removal board dimensions underside Note the lines are in pen just to help orient the threaded bar(jack side)

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Gearbox removal board dimensions (Top, gearbox side) note the block of wood at the front to match the underside of the gearbox

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Gearbox removal board in use2

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Gearbox removal board in use1 Note the forward clamp was in the wrong lug so wasn't sitting flush with the board on the offside

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Gearbox removal brackets dimensions