Drivetrain Overhaul!

[JeremyH]

lol, my bolt should be here tomorrow and then the trans can go in, gonna do some little things today.

 

[ZmanM3]

Like make a samwich?

 

[JeremyH]

No sammiches today lol

Got the MGW put together and bolted to the trans. Since I stiffened the trans crossmember mount and the shifter arms attach to the trans with hard no flex bushing and has the new solid straight trans linkage I left the very soft "street" bushing material for the forward chassis mount. The street bushing has a lot of play in it which I liked. I figure this way the shifter will favor staying in line with the transmission more and keep the shifting feel more solid. We shall see!

Arms on and loctited with the supplied red Loctite.

Added the dynomat as suggested in the install directions.

And got her pinned into the trans and linkage lined up, just waiting on that last bolt now!

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Looking good!

 

[JeremyH]

And so easy to install out of the car lol

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Not going to talk about that.....mmm k?

 

[mustang1200]

Love it. It looks great.


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[ZmanM3]

Looks great.

 

[JeremyH]

Well decided to trim down the reverse lockout spring to make it a tad easier to get into reverse since I don't have the solenoid wired up. Here is the process.

The solenoid is on the driver/left side towards the back.

There is a c clip holding in the plunger that needs removed. And then the assembly comes right out.

The main spring that we need to cut is installed compressed and held in with another small c clip. So I compressed it in the vice and removed the clip to get it apart.

Then you can remove the spring, this is the guy that makes it hard to push over to reverse when the solenoid is not energized.

I cut about a coil and a half off and then put it back together in reverse order.

Boom, all done. Will see how it does now. It was always a little tricky with an aftermarket shifter, this should solve that.

 

[ZmanM3]

Cool idea. I don't think my t56 is all that hard to get into reverse but I do think I'm going to spring for that control moduel reverse lock out moduel.

 

[JeremyH]

Its not hard imo with stock shifters with out the solenoid wired up. But with the aftermarket can be harder. I could do it fine with practice but people would get in my car and swear reverse was impossible. This should make it easier while still providing resistance to keep you from accidently going to far over. I just have no interest in wiring it up lol

 

[ZmanM3]

I mostly want to get the solinoid lock out thing because my wife at some point may decide to finally learn to drive a stick and I know she will have trouble with reverse. I have bad dreams about her on I195 shifting into reverse at 65mph.

 

[JeremyH]

Well without it she will never get into reverse lol

 

[ZmanM3]

I don't think its that hard to push over. and other then that I love how its shifting since my Swarr shifter got rebuilt by them. Sometimes when you get second hand parts you don't always get the correct hardware. I drove around for 2 years until stuff broke loose and come to find out I had incorrect bolts holding stuff down.

 

[thump_rrr]

In the same discussion as how to crack rods, butter vs margerine. Which bread type is better for pulling a bearing. White, wheat, some fancy imported French bread?

Sliced bread for American cars.
Italian bread for Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Ferrari, Lancia and Lamborghini
Baguette for Citroën and Renault.
Crumpets for Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar and Rolls Royce.
Bauerenbrot or Pumpernickel for Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen.

Edit Naan can be substituted for Jaguar since it is now owned by an Indian company.

 

[JeremyH]

Lol, you put some thought in that one!

 

[mpm_1]

looks like fun JeremyH

it seems there must be a hidden connection somehow between these two bread related procedures....

http://www.s197forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115685

 

[JeremyH]

Well good news, bolt came and its the correct part... Bad news.... went to install it, spun in easy by hand, then went to barely snug it up and the fitting on the trans linkage shattered... FML... More stuff to order.. appears to be some kind of powder metal part, very weak compared to the hard steel on the MGW linkage looks like.

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Oh no....sigh..one step forward, two back...

 

[eighty6gt]

Late to the party but if you remove coils from a spring doesn't it become harder to compress? How did that mod work out?