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Reply to "ZF safety wire kit while the tranny is in the car"

You cannot get the long cross-bolts out under the car as they run into the subframe rails & inner fender panels, and if you unbolted the ZF & engine from its mounts and jacked the thing up a couple of feet for clearance, you'd still be faced with working upside-down under a teetering, permanently dripping transaxle. Not all the lube drains out even in a week... Just pull the 155-lb ZF & bellhousing and put it on a bench or crate upside down. Then you don't even need to drain it, just cap the air relief. You'll need 10 drilled U.S-made bolts (the OEMs are too hard & brittle to drill & reuse), some 0.032" dia stainless aircraft safety wire, twisting pliers-either pro saftey-wire pliers or other, a clean rag to jam into the ring gear mesh while tightening/untightening the bolts (work on them two at a time) and a crowfoot socket for a torque wrench so the new bolts can be torqued into the ring gear properly with the reduced space inside the cases. The particular crow-foot socket you'll need will depend on which Pantera vendor you buy the bolts from (cheapest way is to buy a 'kit' of bolts & wire) and the size of your torque wrench- 3/8 or 1/2" drive. Figure on a week of evenings to do this necessary job.
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