Reply to "ZF Removal"

Pretty easy actually.
I use a cheery picker and wrap a nylon tow strap around the middle, towards the rear of it a couple of times since this is where most of the weight is.
If your going to pull the bell housing with it, take off the starter & slave cylinder completely. Remove the wheel housing spreader bar, the bolts holding the bell housing to the motor including the one's underneith the car holding the dust shield. You can get to those while pulling the starter. Undo the 1/2 shafts at the ZF inter stubs axles, take off all the ZF mounts, ground cable and speedo cable & reverse light wires. Pulling up a little with the cherry picker, pull back to free the output shaft from the pilot bearing and clutch disc. You may have to jack up your motor just a little to get the right parallel angle.

I don't have A/C so I don't know what will have to be removed on this part. I would think probably the fan and housing from the rear for clearance.

If your going to leave the bell housing attached to the motor. Then you don't have to remove the starter or slave cylinder, just the slave pin holding the slave piston and piston itself. Then remove the bolts holding the ZF to the bell housing and just do everything else the same way. BUT BE AWARE, there are 2 allen head bolts inside that bell housing that also hold the ZF to the bell housing that can only be reached from inside the bell housing once it's all out of the car. If these bolds are still there, you will have to pull the bell housing with the ZF to get to them.

Some people after taking the ZF & bell housing out the first time, do not put back in the allen head bolts or convert them to studs for future removal. I converted mine to studs.

Chances are if your ZF has not been pulled before, these allen haeds bolt are still there in which case your going to have to pull the bell housing with the ZF the first time.

Should take you a couple of hours at most. I have a ZF 2 and I can pull mine completely out in an hour. But I've had lots of practice at it recently.