What was leaking? The hard line itself?

Not too familiar with the Katech bleeder so can't help there unfortunately. It shouldn't be loose though I don't think.. All of the fittings on the ECS one end up being stiff/don't move once they're tight so I can only guess Katech's is the same

 

Leaking at the union between the line and the fitting that goes into the slave.

 

Ah, yeah that does suck. Well, it will go together faster the second time at least..

 

its a 2 piece part, fitting in the slave then the swivel union. Make sure it's tight. mine came loose on my initial install and leaked, all I did was tighten it up and it's been fine. it has survived 4 removals to date.

 

Are you talking about the bleeder or the line that goes to the master?

 

at the slave. sorry best pic i got quick. my got loose here

 

But the upper portion

 

Gotcha. I sent it back to Katech today after I got it all torn back apart. Theyre going to look at it and let me know. I hope it didn't just need tightened more.

 

Jason is about the best stand up guy your gonna find. If it's the part I'm sure he'll make it right. He has really helped me out on a few occasions.

 

Fantastic write up. This helped me very much today. Thank you for the contribution.

 

I have access to a lift and a cradle jack. With headers, how much time would you expect this to take?

 

With a ton of stopping and distractions it took us about 5hrs. To get it on the floor and the clutch out. I would think that if we had stayed on task we could have gotten it out in 3.5hrs or so.

 

I'm glad this thread is still getting hits and helping people out. I've done the job nearly 20 times and if I wrote this today there would be a few tweaks for speed but not too much.

Headers adds a little time. I usually pull the left right out, and remove the bolts on the right one to move it over. Pull the plugs on the right side cause you'd likely knock one moving the header out of the way to remove the bell housing.

I was booking it one evening and me and a friend Brandon, who's done a couple with me before, did a monster lt1-S in just under 3hrs. we started at 7:30pm and at 10.16pm we we're on the road for a test drive. But under normal pace 2 guys I'd say first time maybe 8-10hrs, you'd cut it about 2 hours your 2nd time around. Brandon and I have a system, we are both familiar with the job, and both techs by trade. we don't help each other do the same thing we tackle different things at the same time. And it goes something like this.

1: I'm in the car removing interior trim and shifter, while Brandon is underneath taking the exhaust off and tunnel brace.

2: bring the car down, let me out, and we each tackle a header and plugs(passenger side)

3: bring the car back up and each tear down one side of rear suspension along with left rear caliper and brake line going to the right side.

4: then one starts on the torque tube bolts while one gets the cradle jack up and pulls the 4 cradle bolts and tackle the rear harness

5: I usually separate the clutch line while Brandon starts the pull back and separate the tube from the bell housing. we drop the assembly together and move it away.

6: he starts cracking the bell housing bolts while i lower the front cradle on the back bolts to give Brandon more room for the top bolts on the bell housing and he pulls it down. he removes the clutch assembly from the car while I replace the slave on the tube.

then same pretty much in reverse.

on your 1st one take your time, double check everything. remember, most clutches need to be broken in properly. it's a big job, you don't need to do it twice. break it in the way the manufacture suggests.

got any addition questions i, and a few others here have done them plenty of times so just ask.

 

Just now seeing this excellent thread and unfortunately, my '07 (Z51/59k miles) coupe's transmission or clutch (???) went out on me when bringing our daughter home from school a week or so ago. We were on the parkway, in 6th cruising about 70 and all of a sudden, it was an unbelievable loud sound of a box of rocks and I couldn't get it into any other gear. Pulled over and was able to only put in 1st. Slowly got it home and stopped in front of the garage to let our daughter out. I discovered it would go into reverse and into other gears, albeit very notchy. Pulled it in with it making noise and there it still sits. Don't want to take it to the stealership for fear of getting gouged even more but instead, waiting for the guy who installed my super long tubes some time back to get caught up enough for me to flatbed it to him so that he can assess the damage. At least I can watch what he's doing and feel a little more confident that he'd be telling me the truth. I am worried sick about it but nothing I can do until then. Never had this happen, so I don't know what to look for. The guy told me that it could very well be the lining of the clutch but of course he doesn't know until he pulls it. A big deal and I'm not feeling good about the outcome. I already had a MGW shifter but upgraded to the newer about a year ago and George installed it himself. I would be looking to possibly upgrade the clutch, etc. if necessary and another reason why I was intrigued by this thread. And I forgot to mention that for a little while before this happened, I would have to put it in 2nd before shifting into 1st to prevent raking. So another reason to think clutch maybe???

At any rate, please forgive me for sharing my experience here, but the OP did such a fine job on info and pics, I thought I may learn something from the experts.

 

That is really unfortunate, sorry to hear. Doesn`t seem likely to have the transmission or the clutch just give out cruising in 6th. and 2 mgw shifters seems odd to me as well but besides the point.

Does the shifter feel normal?
Does it shift into the gears with the engine off?
What kind of clutch is in the car?

Also, if you have a gut feeling this guy would not be telling you the truth needed work on your car, why do you bring it to him. If I had a customer who felt like he couldn`t trust me I`d kindly hand him keys back. No fun for either party to feel that.

 

Thanks rp. Yes, very odd indeed! Over the years, had the water pump replaced, the harmonic balancer, the radiator, and lastly, threw a code indicating the cat converter (hence me just replacing them with LG's Super Long Tubes). Figured if I was going to spend some money, might as well get something that I could see results. And I do.

Just a stock clutch. So, it lasted 10 1/2 years but still??? I haven't dogged or abused my vette at all, but I do drive it. Fairly low mileage, as you can tell with it being 10 1/2 yrs old.

The shifter is notchy but will go into the gears with the engine off. I did test it with the engine turned on and backed it out and pulled it back in. Still rough and noisy.

I trust the/my guy . . . the dealership is who I would possibly not trust as much (because it's well, a dealership). At least with my guy Mickey, I could stand right there with him as he's doing the work and could see what the problem is. Plus, he'd be the only one doing the work and not one of his guys that he used to have. He let um go a while back as they screwed up some jobs and he had to correct them. He figured that he was better off being a one man show, but the rub is he has so much business that he's backed up, hence me having to wait a little. His son races also, so that takes a little bit of time away (they go this Thrs, in fact), so it's a short week and I figure it's better that I keep the car home until he can actually get it up in the air to look at it.

Had 10 1/2 years worth of pics (of everything) on PhotoBucket and we know how many of us got screwed by them. So, all I have so far loaded in my laptop are a few my vette, until I can get them all put on my new host Imgur . . .

 

Very nice write up will definitely help some of the joes around here

 

Im mid-way through this on jackstands as well.....

 

It's a fun one. They come apart pretty easy, little more trouble getting it back together because of the whole gravity thing.

 

Wow! This will really help me within a few months when I'm taking my drivetrain apart! Thanks a lot!