The TT shaft is hardened steel and very strong I dont think it stripped, most likely the coupler just stripped and got stuck on the shaft. I would cut the coupler and just get a new one after you have the trans out

 

I did use a lot of brut force but it didn't wan to move onto the trans side.

 

the transmission and torque tube need to be pretty much perfectly aligned for the coupler to slide. if the coupler is the only thing keeping it on the car then the whole 150~ lbs of the transmission is levering up on the coupler so you cant slide it off. reattach the body mounting bolts and ten slide the coupler onto the transmission side, undo the bolts and use your jack to lower the transmission

 

I have started to believe that this guy is trying to read braille off his computer monitor because he just doesnt listen.

 

maybe the interwebs dont translate into canadian.

 

Youll need to bolt the transaxle back to the car and put at least 2 of the torque tube to transaxle bolts back in and torque them down. Like someone says below it all has to be aligned for the coupler to slide.

Next up, spray some WD40 or something onto the transaxle shaft and inside the coupler, so it slides. Then youll probably need leverage, a pry bar or something, to get the coupler to move at all.

For getting the transaxle out using a regular jack, try to get someone to help if you can. The transaxle is 150 pounds or something, and you have to monkey things around to get it out. WATCH OUT for the fuel filter/lines on one side if youve unbolted the transaxle crossmember, it can get hung up on the fuel filter and hose. If youre using a regular jack it also has to be balanced. I think the balance point is between the two outputs, where you bolt the CVs, but play around with it to get it to the right spot.

Mind the shift rod, it has to be disconnected at the front and pushed REALLY forward to clear the transaxle bellhousing.

Post pics of the splines on the torque tube first before going further, and look at the coupler.

 

Post a thread asking for advice on how to fix something, then immediately talk about how you don't have the time so you are jut going to sell your car, then come back and do it again the next day?



I hope you are able to get it fixed, anyway.

 

the trans doesn't want to go back into the bellhousing now.... It's supported by an atv jack and strapped so it doesn't tip over. the top mount is removed and the coupler was pushed to the tq tube side (yes I know it has to come back to the trans now).

so when I try and push teh trans back into the bellhousing it won't budge and I tried lowering and raising it to try and get it alligned right.

 

I hate to be blunt but cutting that SOB coupling off in the first would have saved you much of this aggravation. You can not get it back together because it is bound up on the splines now. I'm sorry but it's been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I admire your willingness to try to do these repairs yourself but you've ignored some pretty sage advise from many people here from the very start of your original 'clunk' thread. Hopefully you will succeed in getting the trans off without further damage to the car.

 

I didn't get very far trying to cut teh coupler with a hacksaw. It's pretty thick steel and my little hacksaw wasn't cutting through it very fast it'd take hours of cutting.

now I'm pretty much stuck again don't have really any time in the next 2-3 weeks so the trans is just being supported with the input shaft stuck on the coupler, doesn't look pretty now.

 

Cutting out the tire well makes less work?!?! Sounds like you need to sell the car.

POST A PICTURE OF THE TT SHAFT

 

trans isn't out yet like I said. can't ge it out with that coupler stuck on. I'll post pics of the tq tube shaft once I can get it out.

the teeth on teh tq tube shaft looked rounded and flat vs the pointy V shaped teeth of the trans shaft.

I would think the teeth on the tq tube shaft / trans should look the same.

 

you may just be seeing the teeth on the very end of the shaft, those are fine if they are rubbed down or whatever because theres still about 3 inches of shaft for the coupler to grab onto

 

Now THAT'S something!! LOL.

 

You pretty much ignored the advice of everybody who has done this before. Why do you even bother asking if you are still going to do it your way? Doing it your way gets you your current results. Its frustrating enough for some of us who give a crap to post info on a car which we cannot see any pictures to start with. I sometimes wonder why I even bother.

Let me give you a scenario you can understand as you are still in school. Someone just got done taking algebra and needs 1 more year of math to go to college. He decides for some reason to jump directly into Calculus and cannot solve problems in the class. It will take 3 years of math before he can even to start to understand WHY he cannot solve the calculus problems. However, he needs to finish this course to get into college but has NO TIME to study. Many tutors try to walk this person step by step to solve these calculus problem which requires following instructions EXACTLY. The person decides its too hard to implement steps to solve the problem and is stuck making the problem much worse by trying to learn linear algebra to solve the calculus problem and is stuck having to learn 2 more years of math BEYOND calculus to implement these methods through linear algebra. This person cannot give up and still go to college...

And the tutors are frustrated.