dropped the tranny today to find one of the rear mount bolt's broken off inside the bolt hole. the other two bolts have worn the holes out. how hard is it to replace the bell housing. and what else shoul i do while it is open.

as long as you don't dump the gears out, that is an easy job. i wouldn't do anything honestly unless you were up to a challenge. Go buy a retro fit, get some safing brackets, and maybe a new speedometer gear if you feel like spendin the money. new axel seals, new bearings. you could do it all if ya wanted. but if its working fine, i'd just replace that half of the tranny. its easy to replace if u can drop the transmission.

I just found out both my driver and rear motor mounts are broken. According to CAPS you can get the clutch housing which is part number:
M04761089

I have a sheared off bolt stuck in mine. I haven't tried to drill the old one out yet.

Ill be replacing my bellhousing here shortly, but for a different reason

hooray for cracked bellhousings!!









:(

I was able to find a good, cheap used bellhousing.

I have now purchased new mount drilled bolt out and will be taking to the shop weld studs in and reinforce the mount hopefully this is the last time it happens. 5th mount i have replaced thus far.

if its the rear bolt closest to the firewall, you can drill straight through to the other side.

i did this on mine. i drilled it a little larger then retapped it.
has held so far. :shrug

if its the other ones, id go with ^^^^ and try and find maybe just the bell housing. then drill the mount holes through put a grade 8 inthere and seal them with locktight so you have three bolts sticking up from the tranny. then you can just put the plate on and add washers and a nut. would probably hold better than the threads in the aluminium bell.

my 2c