I should have been more specific… I KNOW that reverse works without the wiring… I need to know which wires it is again for the lights… I know which ones they are on the manual transmission. I want to know which wires on the engine harness from an automatic harness to match with the green and yellow wires from the manual… now I may just track this down and fix it myself. I did this part of the write up YEARS ago… I have completed several of these swaps but have only reused the auto harness once or twice.
After monkeying around with the clutch cable. I broke down and got a brand new one from the dealer. Works fine now. The money saved getting a used clutch cable from the junkyard didn’t pay off this time.
hmm i used this site to do my auto—>5spd and came out real good. i love it just used a factory 5spd teg and droped the tranny into my factory auto.i was tired of the locking shifter in park in the winter or when it was cold to get the key out.thanks g2ic
anyone have the specs on the bolts for the tranny
I think they’re M12 x 1.25, but I can’t remember the lengths.
Which ones are you interested in. They are M12x1.25 but there are different lengths and there is one nut. I have mine out right now so let me know which ones and I’ll measure the lengths.
OldGuy, that would be helpful in general if you did that.
For some odd reason it’s not documented anywhere on what lengths are needed. I called the dealer parts department at one time and even their system couldn’t tell them.
How’s your conversion going?
i need the lengths i know the sizes i called up acura to get them just really neeed the lengths and also the two plugs that the auto had on the what do i do with them now just leave them hanging and also the plug that connected to the auto in the rear
The 5 speed mount is a two piece mount. I am not sure how you are planning to install that mount. Are you using the spacer method described early in this thread. If so, the bolt lengths would be longer than the stock bolts. Whatever, I’ll measure the length of the standard bolts for the 5speed two piece tranny mount. I’ll do it tomorrow and post it. If thats not what you need, let us know.
??? I thought we were talking the tranny to engine block bolts. LOL.
When you say plugs are you talking about the electrical connectors that were connected to the transmission? I think you can leave them just hanging there. They were for the shift solenoids. Once you disconnect the transmission ECU, they won’t be needed anyways.
I thought he was talking about the tranny mount bolts. Go figure. What is he talking about?
i am shimming the manuel mount to fit instead of buying the auto to manuel mount which will be bought later on
i know in the write up it said they are 1 inch longer and you use a 1 inch thick nut to fill the space but what are the lengths of all the bolt for the tranny mount i dont know which bolts went to the tranny mount i know they are 12 x 1.25 but need the lengths of them
also on the big plus thing with all the wire that you have to ground out 2 and connect 2 together which ones do you ground and which ones connect
Ok. Thats what I thought you wanted. I’ll get the lengths and post them tonight or tomorrow.
thanks man
The tranny mount assembly is in two pieces. A bottom plate attaches to the tranny and the mount attaches to the bottom plate. The bottom plate uses 3 bolts to attach to the tranny. They are all 25mm long. I measured the depth of the holes in the tranny and they are close to 40mm deep and are threaded all the way down. So a slightly longer bolt would work too. The tranny mount (the big rubber thing) attaches to the bottom plate with 2 bolts and one nut. The two bolts are 30mm long. One screws down into a nut that is welded to the top of the bottom plate. The other one is inserted from the bottom of the bottom plate and screws upward into a nut welded to the top of the tranny mount. Those bolts could be a touch longer as well but not much. Hope this helps.
hey conrad (offtheline), innovative mount FTMW
so in order to mount the shift linkage does the heat shield need to come off :dozing:
[QUOTE=Archon;1395779]On the automatic cars, the starter’s S terminal is wired directly to the ignition switch. As with most things, the ignition switch wears with time and resistance builds preventing enough current to flow to the starter. This is why we hear a click when the ignition is turned. The current supplied is only powerful enough to partially pull the plunger against the spring.
The relay takes the signal from the ignition switch to send full battery power to the S terminal. This takes the load off of the ignition switch itself and lets the relay handle the high current load required.
I don’t know how many miles are on your car, Kevin, but my chassis has over 300K.[/QUOTE]
Bump for an old post. Archon, if you are still subscribed, your help is appreciated. If not hopefully somebody else can answer this:
Maybe I’m misunderstanding this, but is the relay only hooked up to the signal terminal on the starter? Do I even need to touch the bigger wire that is screwed on to the starter? My interpretation is that the relay’s main purpose is to provide ample “signal” strength, via a direct connection to the battery.
The “signal connection” is the one highlighted “terminal and black/white” in the picture.
hooking up reverse light
I had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to wire up the reverse light for this swap based on the information that has been given. After looking up in the shop manual I was able to figure it out. I would also like to pass this info to members on this forum. Of course the reverse light switch on the trans is the yellow and green wires. Now under the dash, the two wires that you connect to the engine bay wires are YELLOW+YELLOW (under console) and GREEN+ GREEN w/ Black STRIPE (under console). There are two GREEN wires with a black stripe under the console. When you look at the plug, the two thick black wires with the white stripes, their numbers are 11 and 12. Just below these wires, the numbering starts from 1-5 (under the black wires). Then under 1-5, you have 6-10. You want to hook-up wires 2 and 3 to the trans wiring. I hope that this information clears up a lot of confusion. Thanks to all people that have put the time and effort into making this swap possible.
omg…we have done it all but the wiring is giving us a headache…
we cannot find these wires that have to connect to trick the clutch sensors.
we are using a manual ecu so the make it think its in park wont work correct?
anyone have pictures of the actual wires?? the colors and some of the others are no where to be found