swapping a AT in a civic

[T2urtle]

02 civic with a bad auto trans.

Never done one on a civic before, last time i did one on a VW jetta, i had a lift and it was a about 5 years ago, took me little under 8 hours. Now i need to do this on a civic in a garage.

Ive heard civics are extremely easy to do but i figure i'm setting aside the whole weekend, friday night to sunday night for this job. Its been a while. How hard is it to do in the ground and dropping the trans. I dont have a trans jack nor am i strong by any means.

Kinda debating on paying someone to do this so i dont have to worry too much, but i'm trying to find out fair labor prices. I think 5.0 hours to R/R a AT is what the book rate should be around but i dont have access to one.

 

[manimal]

Those trannies are cake. You can lift them with one hand. Think it took us 45 to swap one on a flipper last year.

 

[KIAman]

I am glad to hear that a tranny swap is cheap and easy in a 7th gen civic. Mine has close to 150k miles and no transmission issues yet, knock on wood.

It makes sense, the AT looks really small, but what about the axles? Were those easy too?

 

[CraigRT]

I am glad to hear that a tranny swap is cheap and easy in a 7th gen civic. Mine has close to 150k miles and no transmission issues yet, knock on wood.

It makes sense, the AT looks really small, but what about the axles? Were those easy too?

Axles are nothing, they should just pull right out of the transmission. Only thing I do when I am in there doing a job like this is replace the axle seals on the new donor trans.

I assume it would be an easy swap.. I'd do it for sure if it were me.

 

[T2urtle]

axles on civics are cake. ive done them before. clearance to drop the AT is what i wonder about.

Like i said i'm not exactly strong.

best place to get a trans from?

been looking on car-parts.com and called some local junkers and they all want $1000+