I just finished my first clutch install on my 99 Civic EX today using your guide. Everything came out awesome and I wanted to say thanks so much for taking the time to post the diy. It took about a day and a half working all by my lonesome and with no air tools, but I learned so much and didn't run into too many snags. Being a newbie your pics helped so much. What really helped was that I really took my time before I got started to look under the car and from the top, studying your guide and really understanding what I was going to be doing under there and where everything was. It became way less intimidating the more I understood what I was going to do. From this thread people seemed to be having a real hard time with with the axel nuts, so that kinda scared me away from that and I figured out how to swing the axles out removing 2 bolts and a nut from the lower control arm. I was intimidated to do the bitch pin and was just going to unbolt under the shifter, but I thought what the heck lets give it a shot and to my suprise mine came out fairly easily. For installing the tranny back on I used some M10x1.25 50mm long bolts and cut the heads off and inserted them into the bottom tranny holes that go into the little stiffeners by the oil pan. They acted as guides and made the alignment of the tranny go fairly easy. I am not sure if it was using the bolt guides or that I accompanied it with really taking my time to line up the clutch using the alignment tool but it went on super easy.

I am currently breaking my clutch in. I installed the XTD stage 3 and exedy flywheel in my 99 ex d16y8 with a Greddy 15g kit, 11 psi, tuned in crome. I will take it easy for the next 500 miles and see how well it holds when I can beat on it more. I have to take it easy anyways since I am having head lift issues, so I will try changing out my first headgasket and arp headstuds next weekend.

Thank you again for all your help. Your guide and the tips everyone else has offered has been an incredible tool to save some money and have a lot of fun learning to turn my own wrenches. Take care!