When you install your new throwout bearing with your clutch, make SURE that your clutch fork is seated properly. A short guide to installing the bearing follows:
1. Pull the clutch fork away from the transmission slightly, to give room to install the throwout bearing.
2. push the clutch fork in, making sure to clip the little spring clip thing on the top of the little nub there, and sliding it over the little hooks on the bearing.
3. That should lock it in place. Don't knock the transmission too hard when installing it, or you might dislodge the clutch fork and bearing. (That's what happened to me.... grrrr.... I had to take the tranny off and fix everything, and then I had a real pain of a time installing the tranny again [couldn't get the input shaft to slide in... had to rotate it a few times])
Alright.... other than that, installing the new engine is really simple.
New Engine Install:
1. Remove the transmission's mount on the top, to give a little more wiggle room.
2. With a friend, slowly drop the engine in.... turning it or whatever to line it up to let the bottom mounts on the transmission slip into their holes on the motor mount member. Bolt those up.
3. Put the upper transmission mount on, screwing on the three bolts on the transmission first, then put the actual chassis bolts in loosely, tightening each slowly, to make sure they all stay on.
4. Connect wires, coolant lines, fuel lines, vacuum lines, throttle cable, etc.
5. (Manual Transmission Only) Install clutch slave cylinder, making sure that the little rod inside plugs into the clutch fork. Install shifter stabilizer bar, bolt it up. Put screw through top of shifter rod, pound down, put nut on and tighten enough to let it still move.
6. (ATX only) Install whatever it was that was on the auto tranny... I forget, so sue me!
7. ummmm, not sure what else you need to do
