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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 |
Mar 26 2016, 08:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 6-October 15 From: Iowa Member No.: 19,239 Region Association: None |
Moving along....I removed the side cover plate which is attached to the fork piece.
I tried lifting the intermediate plate out of the case, but it would lift up maybe 2 inches before encountering resistance. I called Brad Mayeur and he said to press the end of the shift rod for 2nd/3rd gear a little bit (the lower one that just protrudes out the int. plate, just above the rod for 1st/rev). I did that and the whole plate and guts lifted right out. Awesome! With the gears out, I could disassemble the internal shift rod by removing the cotter pin and driving out the pin. This was a little tricky. Thankfully I had a helper to hold the rod steady while I drove it out with a punch and hammer. With the intermediate plate out I carefully measured the two gaskets from a section of the casting that fell between the bearing surfaces to get a good measurement from gasket that had not been compressed. It was still a bit tricky. One round of measuring showed one shim at .005 and one at .004. Another round of measuring showed .004 and .003. So I'm not sure what I've got here. I'll try again. Not sure what the tolerances here are, as the Haynes manual doesn't mention this. I'll do a little searching. Here's my pinion gear. Looks really nice to me. But that's probably just wishful thinking. I'm heading out to the garage now to take my flywheel off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYFn5VvpZ4U |
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