Lloyd
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Wow Bjorkmae...You're superhuman to do that job in 2 days. Took me that long just to get my rusted brake discs off after I stripped the screws out
Hey you said above to depin #10 on plug D and pin it in #10 on plug C...Don't you mean #23 on plug C? ....I'm looking at a chart of the plug pinouts and it says #10 on plug C is blu/black VTM...variable torque management or something like that.
#23 on plug C is labeled blu/white VSS (vehicle speed sensor) Just thought you should clarify that for other folks looking to do the swap in the future.
Ryan S....Yeah that pic looks super hillbilly I know. It started out as me trying to jack the tranny into place from below while my buddy tried aligning it..We found that wasn't working & we realized you really have to hoist it from above, and so we started grabbing whatever was handy. The chain and band clamp & 2x4 came out, and then we needed it higher....more wood etc....Heh! Once we had the height, it worked like a charm and it slid on nicely. The tranny wasn't very heavy so there was no problem with stacking stuff on that lightweight front crossmember.
Also I wanted to add that as far as getting the engine to start after the swap,I found the only wiring that's necesarry is to find the to large black/white wires under the drivers side dash and to cut & solder them together (step #9 on Turbowa's wiring writeup)...I did cut the big AT tranny plug off and twist the black & white before I started it but I'm not entirely sure you need to do that (there's some confusion over which wires go together and I'd like to know more about the whys of that if anyone knows)
In my recent experience, you can start & drive the car with the AT computer and without doing any VSS wiring.
Hey you said above to depin #10 on plug D and pin it in #10 on plug C...Don't you mean #23 on plug C? ....I'm looking at a chart of the plug pinouts and it says #10 on plug C is blu/black VTM...variable torque management or something like that.
#23 on plug C is labeled blu/white VSS (vehicle speed sensor) Just thought you should clarify that for other folks looking to do the swap in the future.
Ryan S....Yeah that pic looks super hillbilly I know. It started out as me trying to jack the tranny into place from below while my buddy tried aligning it..We found that wasn't working & we realized you really have to hoist it from above, and so we started grabbing whatever was handy. The chain and band clamp & 2x4 came out, and then we needed it higher....more wood etc....Heh! Once we had the height, it worked like a charm and it slid on nicely. The tranny wasn't very heavy so there was no problem with stacking stuff on that lightweight front crossmember.
Also I wanted to add that as far as getting the engine to start after the swap,I found the only wiring that's necesarry is to find the to large black/white wires under the drivers side dash and to cut & solder them together (step #9 on Turbowa's wiring writeup)...I did cut the big AT tranny plug off and twist the black & white before I started it but I'm not entirely sure you need to do that (there's some confusion over which wires go together and I'd like to know more about the whys of that if anyone knows)
In my recent experience, you can start & drive the car with the AT computer and without doing any VSS wiring.
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