well my lex has been sitting for months. and i tracked down a ls400 tranny(on the cheap.) the car had 250,000 mi

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732237.jpg


i wound up getting

-a apparently rebuilt tranny(30,mi)
-a ls400 mAF
-A SMALLER almost new battery
-ls400 front brake caps
-and both the cats


for $80.00

the bad thing is i had to pull them from the car. it was a rough day as i never worked on a lex before. i would had took pics but too hot and tired.

now i got the tranny cleaned up(it was sweating some fluid) so i tightened down some bolts and the sweating stopped.

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732238.jpg


http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732239.jpg


so any pointers on pulling the sc tranny?? i know there exactly the same and youre really at the mercy of youre exhaust bolts and if they want to come of or not..

 

so i got around to changing out the tranny filter.


http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732241.jpg


http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732242.jpg



i didn't have a fsm but i used my rb oil pan as a loose reference as to the bolt removal and installitaion pattern


http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732243.jpg


http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732244.jpg



the last person to work on this skimped on a gasket and used a **** ton of (gasket maker). and the pan still sweated fluid


http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/SL732245.jpg


so bolted back up and waiting to go into the car

 

The ultimate W58 swap thread has a great description for removing the SC400 auto.

 

hey maybe this will help you out...
http://www.lexls.com/tutorials/trans...n/removal.html

GL..

 

^^ wow thank you i really really needed that link..