F**k I'm an A$$hole (5speed swap help)

[Red46]

You did yourself a favor!
Definitely read yoshis walk through. I think I commented on his over in e30tech about how I wired the clutch switch up to the auto neutral safety switch so the car wouldn't start without the pedal down but your cruise control still worked.
Pretty easy job. Did it by myself in the driveway with hand tools and a cordless impact.

edit: I just tried finding it and I couldn't. But I found about 20 more and some covered the same area. It all depends on if you want to preserve the CC. Good luck though.

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[Brezzi]

In all seriousness, if you can find a same year car in the junkyard it makes things a lot easier. I 5speed swapped my '89 a couple years back and used all junkyard parts except wear items. One thing i did that i don't see much on the interwebs is to get the entire clutch switch sub harness off the manual car, it plugged right in to where the neutral switch sub harness plugs in (the main chassis harnesses were the same)

This is what I was thinking. There was a late model in the pick your park near me so I'm hoping its still there because I'm going to hold off on buying stuff like the pedal assembly, shift console, and clutch master. Blunt will definitely be getting an order from me around weds or thurs for all the wear stuff.

Tool wise your gonna need a decent swivel/universal and about 3" of extensions to get the top bell housing bolts. Great time to invest in a cordless impact gun, but as said above this job is easily done with hand tools. Also start soaking the bell housing bolts with PB blaster, u should be able to barely see the top ones from the engine bay, atleast enough to get some PB on them.

I'll probably be doing this a my friends garage hes a chevy guy so I can't always find the metric stuff I'm looking for but between my tools and his I'm sure we can get it done. Good idea with the PB blaster, I'll def do that as soon as I get home next week.

[devon.818]

Pull it all put or drop it all Down, meaning do not swap a trans with the motor in the car, pull the motor and trans put(either out of top or drop down subframe) and work on it all outside of car. Trust me! it's the same amount of work when you really get into it, but makes it sooo much easier.

Save a huge headache, if you pull it out with motor, that much easier to put back in, just bolt in drive shaft and done-ish lol

[Brezzi]

Pull it all put or drop it all Down, meaning do not swap a trans with the motor in the car, pull the motor and trans put(either out of top or drop down subframe) and work on it all outside of car. Trust me! it's the same amount of work when you really get into it, but makes it sooo much easier.

Save a huge headache, if you pull it out with motor, that much easier to put back in, just bolt in drive shaft and done-ish lol

ehhh i dunno I should have access to a hoist but I think I'm gunna leave the engine in there I'll consider it once tear down starts. I can see why you would say that though.