Hey Everyone,
I am enjoying the hell out of driving my newly safetied and fun as all get out ratty 73.
I am sorting through all of the general maintenance items that slipped through the rebuild of the suspension and the sorting of the electrical and making some great progress towards my goal of a fun driver. I am making sure everything is in good fettle before I think of changing or upgrading anything. (need a good baseline.)
I have ordered a shifter rebuild kit from Blunt (great service!) to take care of the wonky shifter and have read many posts making sure to get some Redline MTL for the gearbox. Here is my question.
It is hard to tell with the non existent shifter bushings but it seems hard to find and click into second gear and reverse. ( I am very cautious shifting and try to feel my way into the gear ) I was thinking that the syncros were worn out and I do have a second transmission.
The second transmission is on a 73 tii engine and shifts smoothly and cleanly into gear. snick ,snick snick..
I was thinking of just building the new bushings onto the tii transmission and swapping it in. Besides the obvious of replacing the clutch while I am in there ( pretty sure it has been a while but I will have a mechanic check ) what else should I be planning on?
Is swapping a transmission way more work than I realize right now? (This won't be a project for me to pull of myself-mechanic friend to help with the job.)
Cheers, Chris
Cheers,