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I am in the remove engine/transaxel together camp. It can be done engine alone but getting to the access opening to rotate the throwout bearing in the car is more trouble than it's worth. To me anyway. Besides gives you a chance to clean up the t/a. I will admit I wasn't familiar with the prodedure of turning the throwout bearing although I knew one had to. So I did it the dirty way by removing the bolts on the clutch. Now that I've had it apart it's easy to see how it all works. Funny thing is the one bolt I did not touch was the bolt that the clutch fork piviots on. A week after the rebuild I slowly lost clutch and gained freeplay in the pedal. Had to drop it all again and that bolt had worked it's way out and the gearbox was leaking oil through that hole. Red locktite and a good torquing fixed that.
If you do drop the engine and transaxel together go ahead and get the gaskets for the cv joints. I have never gotten them off in one piece. Also some aluminum foil or plastic bags over the cv joints and axel flanges will keep that grease out of your hair when you're under the car. That is the voice of experinece.
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