In my many moons here I haved a many things. One of them being that Ahsai posts are the gospel.

 

 

Always glad to help if I can

 

My pivot ball has been un-lubricated since I've owned it. Squeaks like a ****. Wish we didn't need to drop the trans just to lubricate it....

Been toying with the idea of machining one with an oil impregnated bronze ball.

 

Do you have the updated 997 fork? If not, it requires a new pivot ball that is longer and covered in rubber. That, along with the 3EP grease applied to it, might fix it.

 

Yeah, never understood why that ball is NOT lubricated from the factory. Makes no sense to me. In my third photo above, you can see the black rubber gasket that will actually keep the grease in pretty well (as noted by Frank in post #6).

 

BTW, one caution on the fork during install. Once you fit the fork onto the pivot, there's a weak spring holding it there. The spring is not very strong so be very careful not to disturb the fork and pop it out of the pivot pin unknowingly while you're mating the tranny to the engine.

 

That's whats in there now. That being said, it was installed in 2010. Given the age and miles, I suppose the squeak is understandable. I suspect my throw out bearing is the source of the noise I've been hearing, so I'm thinking I'm due for a clutch job soon.

 

Hmmm. Can you describe the said squeaking? Most of this is above my feeble mind, but gearbox has a decent amount of first gear rattle and there weird intermittent squeaks, not mention squeaks when I depress the clutch. Stock clutch and flywheel have 15K miles on them. Every shop tells me it's fine.

When I changed the plugs on my car, I saw that one of the ignition coils was being held in placed with a sheared screw. I had to call mobile welder to put weld a nut on it to remove it. The previous owners only serviced at the dealer.

 

Not my video, but same squeak.

 

Yup. same as mine.

 

 

 

You may have to rotate the engine from the crank bolt to get the splines to align. Long bolts with the heads cut off can make good guide pins (slot them so they are easier to remove with a screwdriver). Once definitely aligned, you may be able to slowly pull them together using spare bolts of various lengths.

 

Put the trans in gear and rotate both (assuming open diff) output flanges in clockwise or counter clockwise while pushing the trans. That worked for me, popped right in.