Okay, despite placebo being the only positive effect caused by drinking it and the only reason making people drink it being a great marketing scheme, and ignoring all the nausea and toothache, it's pretty good, I guess. Sorry, but I really don't think that drink is useful for anything else than making money.
100's of millions buying it doesn't say anything about quality, but more about advertising. Like, for example, there always are people buying those expensive fuel activators and putting them in their cars, even though those are just simple magnets. Some even reported decreased fuel consumption, although it's obvious how much bullshit it is.
Or if you can explain why is it good, I'll consider apologizing, as you've said you like my car once, and I value that a lot.
I don't know why I typed lift instead of transmission jack. I did it on the ramp, but it's not that easy to hold the gearbox above your head and fit it directly in. I've done it two times on the same car and had problems both times. Your method seems to be the best way to do it without lifting the vehicle tho, and might even be easier, as it's easier to hold stuff with 4 limbs at a time.
It's not necessary to remove this thing. You need to maneouvre it out, it will come out, just use your head. I'd personally do everything to avoid removing that, as I'd be too paranoid to drop something in there. And you'd need to drain the oil that way.
I have replaced clutch on MK2 golf a couple of times, and it's easy to do it without removing the front. The engine and gearbox on MK3 is very similar I guess. The tricky part is to put it back in, quite difficult to put the shaft in the clutch disc when you have no lift and do it by hand.
I sometimes get to drive an 1986 Audi 100 1.8 with LPG and exhaust pipe completely broken off near the header. People run away in shame after hearing the sound of this fine piece of flawless German engineering. Timing and mixture are set just right for the engine to spit massive fireballs from underneath the car, reminding others of the pure awesomeness and manliness of said vehicle. That thing is macho as hell, and has some awesome features like shift into neutral to hear what your passenger is saying and shift back in gear to shut them up or depress the clutch and gently push accelerator to remind bypassers who is the boss of the street. The car is perfect, and has not a single bad thing about it. Well maybe except shutting down in the middle of an intersection and refusing to ever start again, making you push it back home. F**k that. But even when pushing that machine you look as manly as it's possible to look, as there's no thing more manly than pushing a 1500kg piece of metal with a single hand and singing a song simultaneously. Image of said vehicle attached below.