Pulling the trans out of the wagon with the engine already out is duck soup.
Just remove the four allen bolts, speedo cable, and shift linkage, and it
comes right out. With the speedo drive out, count the teeth on the worm
gear inside. If the tooth count is the same on both trannies, use the wagon
speedo drive. If the worms are different you should use the worm from the
wagon (requires removing tailshaft housings and governors). Swap the
u-joint over to the v6 trans and slip it back in.
You could move the engine 4 inches forward by using the driveshaft,
torquetube, and rear mount from a 5-speed or 3-speed wagon. Not much choice
in between. The one-inch spacer would cut your output shaft-to-ujoint
overlap to about a half inch.
Here's an idea, though: weld an extension cut from the front yoke of another
u-joint onto the front of yours, make a spacer plate of the same thickness,
and extend the bolts the same amount. Be sure the weld doesn't get into the
seal area. I think this would work. You mustn't extend the driveshaft,
because it must be the same length as the torquetube, but extending either
the tailshaft or the front of the u-joint will keep the correct geometry.
If an inch or so is all you need, I think this would work. I could make the
spacer plate and extend the u-joint for you, if you don't have a suitable
shop there. Exactly how much do you lack to get the motormounts to line up
on the x-member? I think it is more like 2.3 inches.
Any problem with x-member/steering rack/oilpan clearance if you don't get
the engine far enough forward?
Another off-the-wall thought is a bellhousing spacer plate and a
corresponding crankshaft flange spacer to shift the flexplate rearward.
More complex and expensive I think.
Brian
At 02:56 PM 9/29/97 cst, ftc-nor.n34@smtp.cnet.navy.mil wrote:
> Hi all. Guess what happened to me as I was removing my ZN3J engine
> from my 87 505 STI? I removed the engine, all went well. Then I was
> studying the bellhousing to transmission and noticed there were 18
> bolts holding it in place. One can only guess why so many bolts.
> Anyway, I removed all 18 bolts, then commenced to yank the bellhousing
> off the tranny. Well the bellhousing came off......along with the
> entire front section of the tranny. Here I am, sitting in the engine
> compartment with ATF all over the place and a million parts in my lap.
> Anyone want to guess what kind of foul language came from my mouth?
> I'm pretty sure I got all the parts back in the proper place. But a
> big lesson here, NEVER take things apart unless you know what the
> expected results will be. Just hope I didn't destroy a perfectly good
> 4HP22 while learning.
>
> Doing the same to my 86 Turbo, I removed all 18 bolts, then CAREFULLY
> pried the bellhousing loose while holding the input shaft in place. I
> successfully bolted the bellhousing from the V6 to the tranny. All
> seems to be fine at this point.
>
> Ray
>
>
>
Brian Holm, Peugeotholm
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