Tranny swap!
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Tranny swap!
Hello my name is Thomas. The tranny went out in my 1991 Camero Rs with 305 tbi. I got another tranny from a used car parts store. All i know is that it came out of a 1987 Camero. I install it but when i was connecting the wiring back there was a different connection. It looked like a speedometer cable connection. Am i going to have issues? Or what do i need to do to convert it to the electrical connector?
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Re: Tranny swap!
Not sure about "Camero"; don't even know what that is; butt if it's a Camaro, like the label on the side of the car might say, then all you have to do is take the piece with the electrical out of your existing transmission, take the speedo cable "bullet" out of the other one, and put the electric thing in its place.
If you're lucky the gear mounted on the output shaft is the same. You can look down in there and compare. Ideally they're the same color and have the same # of teeth. If not, you'll need to pop the extension housing off the back of the transmission and swap that over as well.
Definitely READ the stickers on the car and make sure we're working on the right thing here. Then you'll know what to ask questions about.
If you're lucky the gear mounted on the output shaft is the same. You can look down in there and compare. Ideally they're the same color and have the same # of teeth. If not, you'll need to pop the extension housing off the back of the transmission and swap that over as well.
Definitely READ the stickers on the car and make sure we're working on the right thing here. Then you'll know what to ask questions about.
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Not sure about "Camero"; don't even know what that is; butt if it's a Camaro, like the label on the side of the car might say, then all you have to do is take the piece with the electrical out of your existing transmission, take the speedo cable "bullet" out of the other one, and put the electric thing in its place.
If you're lucky the gear mounted on the output shaft is the same. You can look down in there and compare. Ideally they're the same color and have the same # of teeth. If not, you'll need to pop the extension housing off the back of the transmission and swap that over as well.
Definitely READ the stickers on the car and make sure we're working on the right thing here. Then you'll know what to ask questions about.
If you're lucky the gear mounted on the output shaft is the same. You can look down in there and compare. Ideally they're the same color and have the same # of teeth. If not, you'll need to pop the extension housing off the back of the transmission and swap that over as well.
Definitely READ the stickers on the car and make sure we're working on the right thing here. Then you'll know what to ask questions about.
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Man, $2850 for a rebuild? That's rough. Maybe you could look into some local junkyards for a compatible transmission? Might be cheaper, but I'm not sure if it's the best solution.
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Thanks Iami, at 69 you would think i would do my homework when swapping parts. Here in Colo it seems rare to find a third gen Camaro in the salvage yards. At least when ive had the need to look. So i relied on a used auto parts online store. The one i used had one but when it went thru the insp dept theu found a hairline crack. Then the sales person put it out on a hot line and a affiliate store had this tranny out of an 1987 and they said it was compatable with low miles for $1150. I purchased it and installed it and ran into this issue of speedometer cable on the 87 and Halls Effect on my 91!!
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The cable vs electronic speedo thing isn't a third gen issue, as such. It's a year model issue.
Regardless, all the parts just swap over from one to the other. In either direction. Later transmissions are considered better for example, so people often try to "update" theirs, and have to put mechanical goodies in where electronic ones were before. Just as easy.
THAT'S a real problem then... not so much because you can't get the parts, but because you don't know what the right ones to get are. You'll need to match the speedo gears to the rear end gears and tire size the car has, and assuming the speedo was right before, you now no longer have access to that. But once you get it figured out you can get the parts here, as well as various other places. https://transmissioncenter.net/?prod...edometer-gears
Regardless, all the parts just swap over from one to the other. In either direction. Later transmissions are considered better for example, so people often try to "update" theirs, and have to put mechanical goodies in where electronic ones were before. Just as easy.
And i dont have access to the old tranny.
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