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 Posted: 02-14-2007 02:14 am
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Ron Earp



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Location: Cary, North Carolina USA
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 The transmission is back in the car, bolted up, all in place. I can definitely say that the difference in incredible. If you have a worn out five speed in your car, that is the linkage is sloppy, you can definitely fix it yourself with a little patience.

On mine I ended up drilling all the holes oversize to fit a common English bolt size, which was just a bit larger than the metric (I think it is metric) pins used. I then ended up using bolts in one of the locations, pins in the other, to tighen up the linkage. On one of the bolt installs the head will interfere with the driveshaft output but a die grinder will take care of that and give more than enough clearance to allow safe operation.

Not *quite* as good as the four speed IMHO with respect to shift quality, but pretty good.

Ron