'03 Blazer (S-10) transmission removal - HEEEEELLPPP!!! :(

Ok, the wonderful 4L60E in my friend's Blazer popped the other week, and
we're trying to extract the thing for a rebuild. Oddly, I thought the
rebuild was going to be the hard part, but right now, we can't figure
out how to get this silly thing out. Our big sticking point is getting
at the bolts holding the tranny to the engine - in fact, we can't get to
the top two. We thought about lifting the body up, but that's gotta be
bigtime hard plus something's bound to break in the process.

I've read you can do this by removing the Xfer case and tipping down the
tranny, but has anyone actually ever done it in practice? We'd really
like to get the poor thing out of there....

Anyone evr pull one of these things out and can give a few pointers?

thanks!

"Philip Nasadowski" > wrote in message
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> Ok, the wonderful 4L60E in my friend's Blazer popped the other week, and
> we're trying to extract the thing for a rebuild. Oddly, I thought the
> rebuild was going to be the hard part, but right now, we can't figure
> out how to get this silly thing out. Our big sticking point is getting
> at the bolts holding the tranny to the engine - in fact, we can't get to
> the top two. We thought about lifting the body up, but that's gotta be
> bigtime hard plus something's bound to break in the process.
>
> I've read you can do this by removing the Xfer case and tipping down the
> tranny, but has anyone actually ever done it in practice? We'd really
> like to get the poor thing out of there....
>
> Anyone evr pull one of these things out and can give a few pointers?
>
> thanks!
Just follow those directions, drop the tailshaft end, use a looong
extension preferably with a wobble socket on the end, and remove with
(relative) ease. s