Barely made it back to the base of operations. Every red light was a nail biter. I realized I probably should shut the engine off at lights, and started to do that. Some guy in a truck in the next lane started honking at me and his passenger was shouting to get my attention, and as smoke started curling out from under the hood, I shouted back "Dude, I know, I know!". Ran all the stop signs in Evan's neighborhood as I mentally tallied up how much fluid I had lost already. Car did not want to engage Reverse when getting into his driveway. But... made it back.
Bummed, we hopped into the Montero and went out for gyros. It was somewhat amusing to see how far away the trail started, and the lakes of Dexron VI that the car left at traffic lights.
Laughing is easier than crying.
Got back, inhaled gyros, looked at the time. A little after 5pm. I had the trans out in four hours before, not knowing what I was doing since I'd never done a Volvo trans before, AWD or not. Four hours plus packing up plus a two hour drive home.... I could do this. I changed back out of my nice clean, dry clothes, and put back on my filthy, now-cold sweat soaked clothes, and got to business.
According to the timestamp, this was 5:27pm, shortly before I started work:
As you can see, the car is on the ground and in a fully assembled state, aside from the faux battery cover that I'd left off for fluid fill port access. Swedish water in tumbler is for encouragement and appropriateness to project. The things you find in a Kroger...
Zip apart everything underhood (airbox, shifter cable, TCM connector, post-intercooler plumbing, unbolt starter and lay aside, upper engine torque mount, and four or five bellhousing bolts) then push car back into garage and unbolt forward engine mount, actual engine mount, under-engine torque mount, lower stabilizer link mounts, both ball joints, four nuts and a biolt holding in the rack, and a few miscellanous minor fasteners, and at 6:15 I was at this point:
Two 14mm headed bolts and the axles are free of the knuckles, two 10mm headed bolts and the right side axle is free of the engine and can be pulled off. Six 8mm Allen bolts and the rear driveshaft is free (takes longer than it should...), five 13mm headed bolts and the angle gear falls on your head, one 15mm headed nut and three 13mm headed bolts and the rearward engine mount bracket is unbolted from the mount (which attaches to the RACK, not the subframe...!), then six F.U. T50-headed torque converter bolts that WILL stall a 3/8" impact gun so these need to be loosened by hand. Get out the cherrypicker, lower the engine support a bit on the driver side, five more bellhousing bolts, and at 6:54, let's get this transmisson out on a tray:
Nice. Okay. So to prove that I did actually pull the trans and not just stage some photos:
It was a good thing too, because I was out of the little water that I had provided for myself and my hands were too dirty to go into the house. Must stay hydrated when working.