Hi all
I'm trying to remove the automatic transmission from my 505 GTI wagon.
The rear of the transmission in the wagon has a complex bracket called the 'engine mounting assembly' where it joins the torque tube and I'm having trouble removing this bracket.
Does anyone here have any tips for removing it?
The Haynes manual has no real details and although the Peugeot workshop manual has useful diagrams, it is also short on details. Here is a diagram from the workshop manual with my annotations in red:
And here after the transmission and torque tube have been separated:
The bracket consists of a large bracket and a small bracket joined with two arms that have rubber bushings.
The four bolts joining the transmission and torque tube are cap bolts that I have marked 'b'. Removing them is the goal of this whole operation, but the top two are hard to access. Getting to them will be much easier, I think, if I can remove the bracket first, as the workshop manual suggests.
The problem is, once I have removed the large bracket bolts (marked 'd'), the large bracket is still connected to the small bracket which is, I think, firmly sandwiched between the transmission and torque tube - a mechanical Catch 22!
In other words, I need to remove the bolts marked 'b' in order to remove the bracket so that I can access the bolts marked 'b' to remove them! :crazy: Ok, so maybe I'm overthinking this one.
There is also another bolt that I have marked 'c' which also joins the transmission and the small bracket.
So, I'm sure there are any number of bad ways of separating the transmission and torque tube, but has anyone done it before who can suggest the best way?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Hugo
I'm trying to remove the automatic transmission from my 505 GTI wagon.
The rear of the transmission in the wagon has a complex bracket called the 'engine mounting assembly' where it joins the torque tube and I'm having trouble removing this bracket.
Does anyone here have any tips for removing it?
The Haynes manual has no real details and although the Peugeot workshop manual has useful diagrams, it is also short on details. Here is a diagram from the workshop manual with my annotations in red:
And here after the transmission and torque tube have been separated:
The bracket consists of a large bracket and a small bracket joined with two arms that have rubber bushings.
The four bolts joining the transmission and torque tube are cap bolts that I have marked 'b'. Removing them is the goal of this whole operation, but the top two are hard to access. Getting to them will be much easier, I think, if I can remove the bracket first, as the workshop manual suggests.
The problem is, once I have removed the large bracket bolts (marked 'd'), the large bracket is still connected to the small bracket which is, I think, firmly sandwiched between the transmission and torque tube - a mechanical Catch 22!
In other words, I need to remove the bolts marked 'b' in order to remove the bracket so that I can access the bolts marked 'b' to remove them! :crazy: Ok, so maybe I'm overthinking this one.
There is also another bolt that I have marked 'c' which also joins the transmission and the small bracket.
So, I'm sure there are any number of bad ways of separating the transmission and torque tube, but has anyone done it before who can suggest the best way?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Hugo
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