Juuust about to go for the first test spin… turns out the clutch isn’t disengaging. Wonderful. Hydraulics checked out, so there was nothing left but to drop the transmission. Hey, on the bright side this was an opportunity to go through the whole engine removal process and take notes for next time
Cooling assembly off:
Whole assembly out as a unit:
A view we don’t usually get of things:
Turns out…. the clutch disc was in backwards! The doofus who installed it (yes me) missed the small mark for which side was supposed to point to the flywheel.
Going back in today.