Doing my 5mt swap into AWD wagon! *updates
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Doing my 5mt swap into AWD wagon! *updates
Wish me luck!
The donor car is in the garage, engine is out, time to slaughter.
The donor car is in the garage, engine is out, time to slaughter.
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it's not too bad, i had to do it all by myself in my back yard on jack stands.... that sucked. and it was winter
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so i had he swap completed a long time ago. But when the 5spd was getting stored it was on an angle, and im stupid and didnt check the fluid when it was installed in the wagon.
I made it over 100km on a pretty much fully dry transmission before she seized and locked all my wheels. Moral of the story, CHECK YOUR TRANSFLUID! haha. Lesson learned.
Anyway, car sat because Im a sore loser untill my friend was poaching the airconditioning in the driveway. He was messing around revving it off the limiter. Then for some strange reason he desided to dump it at 6500rpm in reverse. Tranny unseized. Im running 80w90 in it for a week and then im gonna drop the pan and check it out. I might go to 80w140 if i see alot of metal.
Man, the 5spd has SO much more pep.
Now I just gotta figure why she makes a grinding sound on stock wheels at full steering lock. Hope i didnt brake anything else.
PS
CHECK YOUR TRANNY FLUID!!!!
I made it over 100km on a pretty much fully dry transmission before she seized and locked all my wheels. Moral of the story, CHECK YOUR TRANSFLUID! haha. Lesson learned.
Anyway, car sat because Im a sore loser untill my friend was poaching the airconditioning in the driveway. He was messing around revving it off the limiter. Then for some strange reason he desided to dump it at 6500rpm in reverse. Tranny unseized. Im running 80w90 in it for a week and then im gonna drop the pan and check it out. I might go to 80w140 if i see alot of metal.
Man, the 5spd has SO much more pep.
Now I just gotta figure why she makes a grinding sound on stock wheels at full steering lock. Hope i didnt brake anything else.
PS
CHECK YOUR TRANNY FLUID!!!!
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You're crazy. I wouldn't be able to find the motivation to get that job done.cj91legss wrote:it's not too bad, i had to do it all by myself in my back yard on jack stands.... that sucked. and it was winter
I once replaced my 4EAT in my 90 L wagon in a friend's garage and his dad helped me get it back in. And it was still a major bitch! I hated every minute of it. The whole time I was thinking how easy it was when I removed the tranny in my toyota pickup by myself in my driveway and put it back in and then removed the engine and put it back in...in the same day.
If I ever had to do the stupid tranny again I would consider removing the engine to get it out vs under the car style.
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it took me almost a month to do, and alot of that was not having motivation at all.... the rain really killed me.
91 L-TW Wagon with a full Swap -RIP
92 SS Prefaced, GD dash swapped, 22T/205 Hybrid 20 psi - BEAST!
93 SS Bone Stock Gone!
94 TW Bone Stock Gone!
91 SS 4EAT Sold!
98 LGT 4EAT
98 LGT Wagon 4EAT
92 SS Prefaced, GD dash swapped, 22T/205 Hybrid 20 psi - BEAST!
93 SS Bone Stock Gone!
94 TW Bone Stock Gone!
91 SS 4EAT Sold!
98 LGT 4EAT
98 LGT Wagon 4EAT
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