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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. |
Porsche930dude |
May 20 2016, 09:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 25-November 11 From: Vestal NY Member No.: 13,819 Region Association: None |
I just picked up a junk yard side shift trans today and am looking forward to the conversion. I did not get the new style rubber mounts with the cross bar. do you think it would be possible to retain the old rubber outer mounts and solid mount the center like the old bar?
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Dave_Darling |
May 21 2016, 11:18 AM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,986 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
I just picked up a junk yard side shift trans today and am looking forward to the conversion. I did not get the new style rubber mounts with the cross bar. do you think it would be possible to retain the old rubber outer mounts and solid mount the center like the old bar? Nope. The shift rod will foul on the hole in the motor mount bar. You need the late style mounts. --DD |
Porsche930dude |
Jun 9 2016, 09:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 25-November 11 From: Vestal NY Member No.: 13,819 Region Association: None |
I just picked up a junk yard side shift trans today and am looking forward to the conversion. I did not get the new style rubber mounts with the cross bar. do you think it would be possible to retain the old rubber outer mounts and solid mount the center like the old bar? Nope. The shift rod will foul on the hole in the motor mount bar. You need the late style mounts. --DD Iv completed the conversion and I was able to use the old outboard rubber mounts and old engine mount with the new bar. I had to drill out the center bar holes slightly bigger to fit the old bolts. also cut off the nubs on the ends of the bars that stick up so they are the same height as the old bar. The biggest problem was the old engine mount holes are about 1/2" narrower than the ones in the new bar. So I sliced out a nut on one side and bent out the gusset to weld in a new nut to slightly widen out the holes. For the shift lincage my old u joint was shota nd part of the bar that came through the firewall was all bent up. so i welded in a new pipe section the same diameter as the old bar. Actually a bit bigger so it sits tighter in the bushing. and i welded in a u joint from a car steering shaft with the splines so its removable on one end. And I even used the old tailshift firewall boot just turned around. It fit over the new u joint since i positioned it as close as i could to the firewall. Hope that all makes sense (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) The conversion seems to work good. i wasnt able to drive it at the moment because i have one wooden wheel (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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