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Tail to Side Shift Conversion Rookie |
Jameel |
Mar 12 2016, 08:25 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 6-October 15 From: Iowa Member No.: 19,239 Region Association: None |
A few days ago I decided to take a closer look at my shift linkage, since my car has some serious issues. Took that rear cover off and found this: https://youtu.be/gtFysPUBIO0
I'm no engineer, but that looks nasty to me. I decided to fix it right. So yesterday I made a trip to 914 Limited and was treated quite well by Brad and Mike. Brad and I had exchanged a couple emails and calls and since I'm less than 3 hours from Peoria, I decided to kill two birds and simply drive in. Brad was kind enough to let me drive his daily 914 to see what a side shifter felt like. Took me about 1/3 mile to decide I would do the conversion. Brad and Mike walked me through a few of the finer points of the process, but this being my first time opening up a transaxle, I figured I'd try and document as much as possible. I've done a bunch of searches here (and at Pelican) but have not found much in terms of step-by-step. Brad's instructions were provided, and he invited me to call anytime for support, but I'll be taking pics anyway, so figured I'd start a thread. Can anyone point me to a thread where someone has documented the process? The best I've found so far is mikedsilva's, here. I could not find others. Sort of off topic too, but is there any way to get rid of the huge smileys window when composing a post? My composition pane is just tiny, like 1/4 the size of the smileys pane. |
Jameel |
Apr 12 2016, 08:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 6-October 15 From: Iowa Member No.: 19,239 Region Association: None |
Putting my case back together I had to reuse the bottom rectangular plate from the tail cone of my tail shifter. The thing was a little beat up. Like someone had backed into a curb or something. The back edge was folder over a little, and the plate was far from flat on the gasket side. There were raised areas around each hole, like the plate got pulled away from the case.
Looks like someone tried to fix this with a cork gasket and a paper one together. My gasket set only came with one gasket, and it wasn't nearly thick enough to span the 1/16" gaps between studs on this plate. So I went to the anvil and carefully peened around each hole from the outside of the plate with a 1/4 punch to flatten it. It worked really well. It still wasn't perfectly flat though. So I hit the inside face on my belt sander and then it flattened up real quick. Hopefully this will be leak proof. Also used Dr. Evil's method to get the cup out of the clutch throwout arm. PTFE S'mores anyone? The last step was to install the new side shift console (I polished up the ball arm) and try and select the gears. I was able to select all gears pretty easily. They all clicked in real positively. I didn't feel any interference between the comb and the selector arms, so I must have got my spacing correct. This was so satisfying. I can't wait to shift this in the car!! |
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