After much swearing, laying on wet asphalt, co-habitating with spiders, wasps, and all things crawly, I was able to wrestle thickly coated greasy black bolts to remove the two engine-to-transmission support brackets from my 92 Sidekick parts vehicle that has lived, dormant, in my driveway for 7 years.
After cleaning, degreasing, and painting them pretty with black engine enamel... I discovered that they were obviously never used on this tranny. That's four hours of my life I'll never get back again.
There were no mounting bolt holes on either side of the bell housing.
![[Image: 2192_10_10_18_11_31_34.jpeg]](http://www.fixkick.com/bbs2/Suzuki-bbs/gallery/2192_10_10_18_11_31_34.jpeg)
![[Image: 2192_10_10_18_11_32_23.jpeg]](http://www.fixkick.com/bbs2/Suzuki-bbs/gallery/2192_10_10_18_11_32_23.jpeg)
Makes me wonder if the 89 comes without the brackets? Or was this an import tranny swap from a P/O?
UPDATE: Again, fixkick comes through!! I was able to determine that this tranny was at least from an 89 via the "K" on the serial number from this fixkick page
http://www.fixkick.com/specs/VIN-motor-decoder.html
Here's my tranny model#
![[Image: 2192_10_10_18_11_53_20.jpeg]](http://www.fixkick.com/bbs2/Suzuki-bbs/gallery/2192_10_10_18_11_53_20.jpeg)
If the tranny drop wasn't such a big job I'd have just swapped the bell housings on my 89 and 92. No doubt I'd find THEY weren't compatible either after all the work. I'll just leave well enough alone.
After cleaning, degreasing, and painting them pretty with black engine enamel... I discovered that they were obviously never used on this tranny. That's four hours of my life I'll never get back again.
There were no mounting bolt holes on either side of the bell housing.
Makes me wonder if the 89 comes without the brackets? Or was this an import tranny swap from a P/O?
UPDATE: Again, fixkick comes through!! I was able to determine that this tranny was at least from an 89 via the "K" on the serial number from this fixkick page
http://www.fixkick.com/specs/VIN-motor-decoder.html
Here's my tranny model#
If the tranny drop wasn't such a big job I'd have just swapped the bell housings on my 89 and 92. No doubt I'd find THEY weren't compatible either after all the work. I'll just leave well enough alone.