So, my transmission shit the bed about 15 minutes ago, this goes out to all Madison area guys who are willing to lend me a hand doing a five speed swap, thankfully I've been parts hoarding and already have the parts... Hoping to start on Friday and have it done by Monday

I'm looking at you, Nick, DJ, and Ben.

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j/k. I have some side work to do saturday until probably 1pm then I'm free. Sunday is good except for the 3hrs. the Packer game is on.
Will mom make some cookies?

Mom will be in Maine. You can drink Dad's beer.

Scratch that, there will be cookies!

5spd swap it not that bad. Pretty straight foward. Just make sure you get the clutch pedal holes drilled rite and you're good. Everything else is just bolting on. If you need, I've got the 5spd clutch pedal and brake pedal. Come pick them up if you want.

I should be free on sunday as well possibly some on sat. Give me a call and let me know when you need me and I will show up.

Thanks Ben! Yang, I've already got the pedals, thanks though!

the pedals are easy, i have a nice trick. You will need some bolts to do it my way. Is there a hardware store in town open on Sat?

Yeah, real close by. You can come by whenever on Saturday, just give me a call.

Good news and bad news, it seems it was just that the PS axle shaft popped out of the CV joint (good news!), but now I have to figure out how to get the damn CV shaft out of the hub (as there is nothing to stop it from spinning) so I can get it back on the axle.

And now I've cracked the bearing cage. Damn.

Okay, this is pissing me off. Here is my theory, the PS axle shaft popped out, which essentially killed my car as it has an open diff, but, it also fucked up the splines in the bearing cage, so I can't just pop the axle back on. I am also unable to get the CV joint out of the hub because there is nothing giving resistance to the torque applied to the axle nut. The ONLY thing I can think of doing is removing the entire hub, putting the bell-end of the CV joint in a bench vise, but I'm not sure if that would be able to hold it even.

And of course it is the simple solution that works, long story short is I'm and idiot and forgot that my car has wheels. Put wheel on, take axle nut off.