Need help to get trans to motor bolts out

The easiest way I've ever come up with is to have about 4-5 12" extensions at the ready, and with the motor still bolted in, drop the trans crossmember. The tail should sag down enough that with your colossal extension set at the ready, you can reach the top 3 bolts with enough room to swing the ratchet at the back of the trans.

Yes, the small body AMC's are a complete pain in the posterior.

Either the above or take off the breather, get a step stool, place your feet (hope they are less then size 10) on the sub frame and use a box end wrench to take them out of the block. They will not clear the bell to fire wall but will enable removal of the transmission or engine.

 Thanks for the answers guys. I'm an avid user of extensions so I have that part covered. Lol. I'll have to see if I can jack up the car and see if I can find enough rims or something similar to stack up and set the car on. Right now there's not alot of clearance. I'm in missouri so we've had a lot of rain, and supposed to be getting 5 more days of it. So it's a bit muddy where the car is. Today I had to put a board under my jack and a rim under my jacket and to stop them from sinking dangerously into the mud. Here's hoping I have a tranny out tomorrow!

Greyhounds_AMX wrote: One thing to consider - I'm not sure what 3-spd trans models were used in which years, but if that's the version with no synchros on 1st gear the transmission is already shot. All of those had been pretty much ground up by 1984 or so. That's approximately the last time I pulled a 3-spd trans from a Gremlin, and it was because mine (1972 base model) had lost 1st gear. Living in Duluth, MN you have to be able to downshift to 1st - the whole place is chiseled into the side of a rock mountain. Silly Frenchmen. At the time someone figured out that a Gremlin X got a 3-spd tranny with synchros, and the only difference was slightly different shifter location. The yard pulled it for me, like this: 1) Back up caterpillar until it rams into drivers door 2) Jump out onto roof of car with chain in hand 3) Smash chain hook thru passenger side quarter window and loop around b-pillar 4) Fire up Cat and pull Gremmie onto it's side 5) Fire up torch set and cut across driveshaft and crossmember on each side At which point he handed me a wrench and told me to take out the bolts holding it to the bellhousing. Easy as pie 1984 junkyard procedure.

the 1975 has a T150. All synchro 3 spd.  Id get the clutch linkage as well.  Everything.