dave1123

You know the old saying, "There's more than one way to skin a cat?" My question is who would want to skin a cat, unless it was a big wild one?

Your pics remind me of when I changed the clutch on my Volks Beetle. I used two concrete blocks and a 4x4. I had to use a bottle jack to put it back in, though.

I remember getting a rear axle from a Pick & Pull. We had to disconnect everything and then pay $25 for them to pick the back end of the jeep up with a forklift so we could drag it out. Later I was told we got lucky because normally, it costs $100 and they do all the work.

BTW, when I did my Chevy truck's transmission, I built a cradle to bolt on my floor jack out of a steel plate and 4 pieces of threaded rod to rest the t/case on. The shape and weight of the t/case is so difficult to handle because of the front drive section, I couldn't possibly do it by hand. I had to use an old seatbelt to keep it on the cradle and be careful because it wanted to flip over until I realized I had to roll it in sideways, perpendicular to the truck's centerline. I was also working alone because my friends abandoned me. I guess they didn't want to lay on their backs on a gravel driveway any more than I did. Oh well. I did lay down some 3/4 plywood to work on, however.