Automatic to Manual conversion
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Laughing Gas
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From: Surrey, BC, Canada
Automatic to Manual conversion
Hey so I've had this truck for a few months now, and love it, but my biggest gripe is that the automatic transmission seems to have a mind of it's own. Some days it shifts beautifully and it rides like a silky dream, and other days it seems to want to be a stubborn mule, and I have to fight it to shift, and sometimes when it doesn't it makes this really obnoxious whining noise till I release, and press the gas once or twice, and it'll shift properly.
Well I was buying some 60-70% tires off a guy for $40/each and he told me that he runs a scrap yard, and he gets these older girls in all the time, and I bitched a little about how I wished it was manual, and he said he could sell me a manual transmission for my truck for like $200, rebuilt with 60k on it, and that got me thinking.
What would it take to convert it to manual? Transmission, steering column, hole in the floor at the right place, all the little trim/shifter.
Is there anything I've forgotten?
And how would I go about mounting the clutch properly, buy anything special?
Well I was buying some 60-70% tires off a guy for $40/each and he told me that he runs a scrap yard, and he gets these older girls in all the time, and I bitched a little about how I wished it was manual, and he said he could sell me a manual transmission for my truck for like $200, rebuilt with 60k on it, and that got me thinking.
What would it take to convert it to manual? Transmission, steering column, hole in the floor at the right place, all the little trim/shifter.
Is there anything I've forgotten?
And how would I go about mounting the clutch properly, buy anything special?
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From: KY
Converting to manual isn't too big of a deal. You will need the pedal assembly which just bolts in. As far as the clutch master cylinder, the firewall has the place for it. You just have to knock it out. You can tell where it goes. You can leave your auto column if you want. It is not something you have to change.
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