is tranny swap hard

[slowest1g]

I have a n/t 90 eagle talon. The tranny went out and i would like a manual. is the tranny swap hard to do? Is it worth the hassel?

 

[Evil04c]

If you don't know what you're doing, and you've never done it before. Get help.

So with no experience it's hard.

 

[just2asian]

Well since your swaping in a front wheel drive, it will take some time. I helped my buddy do his AWD Auto to 5 speed swap and let me just say, that was quite the project. However if your are doing a FWD, source a good tranny, a pedal assembly, master cylinder, shift linkage, shifter assembly and etc... Make sure you read up on it. Truthfully the hardest part to the tranny swap was drilling the holes for the pedal and master cyl. However when you actually get under there and look at it, there are templates already on the firewall to where everything should be.

The easiest way to do it is pull the entire steering assembly and the front seat, this way you will have a lot more room to operate underneath. I would then install the pedal assembly (whether it be the manual clutch pedal and brake pedal, or as my buddy got away with just the clutch pedal and left the auto brake pedal in)

In your situation best way to run the clutch line is get a ss line to run from the master to the slave cyl. Then you're going to have to unbolt the auto shifter and bolt in the 5 speed shifter and drill a couple of holes for the linkage to run out of. You can choose to get a 5 speed center console, however you can put a shiftboot over where the auto console used to be (you will have to use your customizing skills for this part if you choose to do that)

After all that is installed, comes in my opinion the easy part. Drop out your auto tranny. pull the flexplate off and make sure to remove the metal journal bearing? I think thats what its called. Its in the end of your crank. Then you'll want to source the correct flywheel, flywheel bolts, throw out bearing and clutch assembly. You will also need to find out weather the axles are the same for the auto and the 5 speed, I know that in the AWD swap we did, the front axles were not the same, so you will have to source some axles. After all said and done, put the tranny back in and you should be gold. 1 last thing, you may need to compare the rear tranny mount and the driver side motor mount, because they may be different also for the auto.

Now comes the decision on whether or not you want to dive into the project. All said in done, if you get all the parts need the first time (which we did not) this project can easily be pulled off in a matter of a few weeks, if you have to wait for parts from other states, which are harder to find for 2ga awd 5 speed swaps, then it will take you a few months.

 

[slowest1g]

I'v decided to just rebuild the old tranny and keep it auto. Thanks for the info its was helpfull.