You can remove the gearbox leaving the engine in the car (I have done this quite a few times) but I cant see it being worth the trouble to do it the other way around. As you say you have to remove the front pulley and even then I don't think you would have enough room for the input shaft to clear all the clutch assembly so you can remove it, as you don't really want to start angling the engine to clear all this. Why not just remove it all in one go only thing extra needed is to undo the gearbox mounts and take off the gearstick oh and of course catch the gearbox oil as the prop comes out.
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