Possible to pull tranny out without lowering the engine if you are on a hoist? Or is it impossible to get those top bolts without dropping it?

 

It is impossible! lol Even with the motor lowered, it is still hard getting that top bolt off. If you use a 2x4 to stable all the extensions, it helps out alot!!! Good luck.

 

Ok thanks! From what I have been reading there are 3 ways of doing this.

The manual tells you to disassemble quite a bit of the engine to get it to drop, I read one guy just took out the engine mounts and voila without disassembling and another mentioned all he did was remove the header (Which I've already done before so that's an easy job for me).

Also I guess I have to buy an alignment tool for the clutch assembly when I replace the fly wheel from my Honda dealer?

 

Oh and here's my motivation for asking.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X8sdt8cGztM

Looks like all they did was remove driveshaft, cat and heatshield and voila... but maybe they didn't film the other mess.