If the ground cable hasn't been removed before, when re-installing,
clean cable mount point at frame down to bare metal. Details on this
are noted in Bentley. In general, in poor lighting, the OEM galvanized
grey can easily look like bare metal. Not what you want!     lol.

With the cup removed from my floor jack, I found an old spare 1/2"
drive socket to fit that cup hole then mounted that socket to a piece
of 3/4" or 1/2" plywood. This provided a larger platform for the
tranny. I also put wood rails on either side of platform to help
stabilize the tranny.

Using a larger than intended platform on the floor jack might present
an inherent potential risk but for me, that platform helped stabilize
the tranny during removal.

I don't fully "rely" on this platform but then nor would I balancing
the tranny on the floor jack cup.

Neil.

On 3/17/16, SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> the ground cable to body ,
 ....

> lower carefully away...forward and down and out, bit at a time.
> Trans will balance nicely on a decent floor jack.

--
Neil n

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