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Auto to manual drive line coversion can it be done
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:47 am
by awdwagon
Ok,
so im doing a auto to 5speed swap in my 1991 ss and i have the tranny about to go in. In order to make it work i cant seem to find a manual drive line SO i have a friend who works for a local driveline shop dose anyone know how long the auto drive like is and can it be custom cut and ballanced to work for a manual tranny? If so dose anyone have the mesurements it would save me alot of time and trouable of someone has done this before with the measurements thanks.
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:50 am
by Splinter
All EJ subaru 5MT driveshafts are the same length. There has to be one at a junkyard around town
It can be from ANYTHING. Legacy, Impreza, Forester, Outback, WRX... they're all the same.
Cutting and rewelding is just begging for problems imo
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:58 am
by 555BCTurbo
Splinter wrote:All EJ subaru 5MT driveshafts are the same length.
WRONG!!!!
I tried to put a late 90's driveline front section on a 94 TW...and it definately didn't work...
Word on the street is the Impretzel is a different length too.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:11 am
by Splinter
Im assuming you mean during a tranny swap?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:33 am
by 555BCTurbo
Yes...when I swapped BSOD2600's car
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:42 am
by Splinter
Thats really odd.
Ive been told by multiple sources there are only 2 different lengths of driveshafts
a short one used for 4EATS and 6MTs
a long one used for 5MTs
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:06 am
by 555BCTurbo
I mean...I ain't the factory service manual...but I know that the driveline section I got out of a late 90's Outback 5MT car was too long for the 94 Touring Wagon with a 4.11 JDM Turbo Gearbox
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:18 pm
by Splinter
That is really really weird, especially since the tranny and diff can be swapped out of that car into the Legacy, and that the wheelbase is the same.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:39 pm
by Legacy777
555BCTurbo wrote:I mean...I ain't the factory service manual...but I know that the driveline section I got out of a late 90's Outback 5MT car was too long for the 94 Touring Wagon with a 4.11 JDM Turbo Gearbox
You said driveline section. Did you get the entire driveline, or just one of the sections and try to use it?
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:54 am
by 555BCTurbo
Front section...
But when I put the slipyoke in the transaxle, the carrier bearing was about an inch too far from the mounting holes
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:02 am
by BSOD2600
Hmm, my center bearing is going out and a new one is $300 (special tools required to take the end off too). Aarons auto wrecking (only subaru junk yard around here) will sell me a entire drive line for ~$150. Which length/type one should I get? Ok, sure suppose I should just to measure each section and call him up... but would be easier to say I need a drive line from X model subaru
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