You need a reverse hammer and your share of luck to remove collar sleeve from the differential. Leave it as is, it won't come out on its own. Angle/bevel gear has two seals that sit on the CV axle. One of these seals is located inside collar sleeve, make sure it is replaced with a new one, since it...

To keep it short I've got an M66 AWD trans I'm swapping into a FWD '02 V70 and I have no intention of keeping the AWD aspect. I know that the AWD collar sleeve is essentially free floating (although usually frozen) and held in by the angle gear and also keeps the M66 side of the angle gear - trans l...

Seller did a few snip snips here and there that it probably shouldn't have had so I'm gonna need to look into dealing with that. Also now i've gotta figure out how to make it happy in FWD (preferably without shelling out for an angle gear). What kind of snip snip are we talking about? [/quote] Wasn...

So as the title says I finally sourced an M66 gearbox to stick into the meme machine but now i've got a few more questions as I'll be real i've never driven stick and certainly never installed one and I'm sort of having to google the hell out of everything along the way. Also, the seller did a bit o...

m66 get.

Seller did a few snip snips here and there that it probably shouldn't have had so I'm gonna need to look into dealing with that. Also now i've gotta figure out how to make it happy in FWD (preferably without shelling out for an angle gear).

tyguyc wrote: ↑23 Oct 2019, 08:00

TheMrFailz wrote: ↑19 Oct 2019, 16:22
Delete all autotragic fragboxes.

Mr. Failz, Does this mean that you are going to swap a m66 box?

Yes.

Seriously though screw the autos on these things. Nothing but pain while it was pre-gravel filled.

https://i.imgur.com/SUymcwv.jpg Now i've gotta go find t50 torx bits so I can take the torque converter off. Edit: Also, the peg that aligns the starter with the transmission casing was so stuck in there that while I was rubber malleting it out I actually cracked the bit of the trans casing that hol...

Delete all autotragic fragboxes.

Alright so I'm just going to take the "CEM tune" as a load of baloney.

abscate wrote: ↑19 Sep 2019, 13:56

TheMrFailz wrote: ↑19 Sep 2019, 12:58 Blew my transmission up a couple of days ago pulling into a parking lot. Good old aisin.

Yeah, Volvo transmissions suck. My Toyota ones last forever.

Think you've got that one backwards there friend.