outlander
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Columbus,Ohio
It isn't a hard thing to do,looking back on my swap the hardest part was figuring out which parts I needed to make it work.With the right parts it should "fall" together.The cross member(this is a 89) is one of the notable changes made in the swap,on mine I had to move it rearward(instead of the measurement from the lower control arm mount to cross member being 10" it's 14" now)but the holes are already there,they just need to be tapped.The cross member on my 89 even had the a second set of holes from the factory which are the correct pattern for the ax mount.......convenient?Yes.
when ordering clutch parts I ordered 95 parts instead of 89 parts and everything went together fine.
Make sure the ax you have has a vent on it.Some years did not have the vent on the tranny,it was on the shift tower.When I got my tranny from man-trans.com it did not have a vent,which I suspect this is a earlier year transmission(correct me if I'm wrong here)and since the tranny did not come with shifter and shift tower I had to buy one separately,and of course the shifter didn't have a vent built in so I had to make one.All of this I had to realize on my own(hey ma I did it all by myself!!)because in all the searching I did before and during the swap I saw no mention of this important little detail..
when ordering clutch parts I ordered 95 parts instead of 89 parts and everything went together fine.
Make sure the ax you have has a vent on it.Some years did not have the vent on the tranny,it was on the shift tower.When I got my tranny from man-trans.com it did not have a vent,which I suspect this is a earlier year transmission(correct me if I'm wrong here)and since the tranny did not come with shifter and shift tower I had to buy one separately,and of course the shifter didn't have a vent built in so I had to make one.All of this I had to realize on my own(hey ma I did it all by myself!!)because in all the searching I did before and during the swap I saw no mention of this important little detail..
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