My auto to ZF6 swap

Super08Duty · Feb 5, 2013

You can borrow my wire cutters....

brooksfruge · Feb 5, 2013

Super08Duty said:
You can borrow my wire cutters....

Lol....I'm good, I got em out today

It's ready to go in tomorrow!

BFT · Feb 5, 2013

Holy jeez! That's all the crap you had to do, I figured it was less?

brooksfruge · Feb 6, 2013

BFT said:
Holy jeez! That's all the crap you had to do, I figured it was less?

To remove the steering column?

brooksfruge · Feb 6, 2013

andddddd heres where things get sketchy, floor boards are alot different than i thought....not really sure how i should go about this...any suggestions boys?

12stroker · Feb 6, 2013

Looks like the floor is raised up to clear the trans.

brooksfruge · Feb 6, 2013

dodge_dbag said:
Looks like the floor is raised up to clear the trans.

yes the manual floor board is definitely higher to clear the bigger ZF6, only solution i can think of is to cut the floor board out of the manual with more than i need, and mock it up in my truck and cut a whole in my auto floor board leaving a 1in lip for the manual floor board, then use rtv sealant and self tapping screws to seal the manual floor board in my truck, either way its gonna suck :doh:

Meniacal_Mark · Feb 6, 2013

Cut the top of the tranny tunnel off the donor truck and match it to your truck to fit. Theres a thread on here of a guy who did it with 4r100 to zf6.

brooksfruge · Feb 6, 2013

Meniacal_Mark said:
Cut the top of the tranny tunnel off the donor truck and match it to your truck to fit. Theres a thread on here of a guy who did it with 4r100 to zf6.

That's what I'm thinking about doing, just gotta figure out a non janky way of attaching it to my floor board

MorganY · Feb 6, 2013

Cut, fit, tack it on, bolt the trans up, and weld it up once everything is fitted correctly. IMO.

Or use some very nice material and weld up something from scratch.

White_monster · Feb 6, 2013

Weld it. Using screws will creak like crazy. I saw this happening from the get go. Good luck.

brooksfruge · Feb 6, 2013

White_monster said:
Weld it. Using screws will creak like crazy. I saw this happening from the get go. Good luck.

I sorta saw it comin too. Mig or does it have to be tig'd

White_monster · Feb 6, 2013

Mig would be fine. Tig is cleaner though. Mig will be plenty sufficent. Its thin so be careful.

brooksfruge · Feb 6, 2013

White_monster said:
Mig would be fine. Tig is cleaner though. Mig will be plenty sufficent. Its thin so be careful.

thanks for the help.

on a side note..if anyone knows the part number for the manual transmission to engine bolts let me know

also the bolt for the upper gear shift lever is sold with the lever and i already have the lever, so if yall know the size for that bolt let me know

White_monster · Feb 6, 2013

Your dealer couldn't tell you the part number for the bolts from the rear cover picture? I'll check my manual tonight and see if I have the numbers

brooksfruge · Feb 11, 2013

Mockin it up, floorboard modification is last thing to do before driveline goes together, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Meniacal_Mark · Feb 11, 2013

Looks good, it's hard to tell by the angle but your shifter will clear the dash right?

Super08Duty · Feb 11, 2013

It should clear the dash fine. But I'm not so sure about your console.

brooksfruge · Feb 11, 2013

Charles said:
I guess I'll be the one lone soul that says oh dear god WHY......

Took a perfectly nice truck, tore the interior out, sliced it, diced it and all just for the opportunity to put an inferior transmission in place of the one you had before you ever F'ed the thing up.

Slower shifts, reduced power holding ability unless you consider 3 second shifts with a dual disc "acceptable", plastic master/slave assembly to replace constantly, and syncros to turn into mush if you do in fact decide to run any power and then expect to make shifts at anything exceeding grandpa speed.

Dear god...

Professional counseling was in order. The manual trans died for a REASON. As you'll soon see...

Might as well slide a nice freshly cooked steak off your plate and into the trash so you can walk outside and fork a nice steamy dog sh*t turd up out of the flower bed to replace it with. But that would only be this bad if you also had to totally reconfigure your plate and then eat it every day for dinner from then until you finally sold the pile of crap just to rid yourself of it...

Anyway...