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[johnb4]

soo ive been thinking about changing my automatic transmission to manaul. im assuming its expensive but just wanted to get some opinions wether its worth doing it, if it will cause any problems with my car and ruff amount i would be looking at.. (car is an 02 b4)

any feed back would be great

cheers

[Morgan]

Mark (Cruisn) has recently done it to his Gen2 GT im sure he can share some first hand experience

[aekOne]

from memory when i did my liberty, all the parts cost me around $2500 + $1000 or so to put it all in.

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What's a "manaul transmition"?

[johnb4]

haha thanks for pointing that out

[Alex]

Not worth the bother.

It'll most likely require replacement of the ECU, as the transmission's computer (TCU) is contained within it.

Sell car. Buy manual.

Or just enjoy the auto.

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You have buttons on your steering wheel to change gears.

I think that's pretty cool.

[johnb4]

cool thanks for that

[cracka]

I also looked into this ages ago. Can't even begin to mention how many changes needed.

[Start]

Was looking into this also before a conversion.

You lose ABS or Cruise control and likely will have a high idle as the ECU thinks you still have a torque converter talking to the TCM(transmission control module).

There are ways around this, probably by swapping every component of ABS pumps(auto & manual are apparently different) / Cruise etc from a donor car and changing the ECU.

But really I dont think its worth the headache tbh.

[Trent]

Don't bother. It was a big enough hassle converting a HQ tonner from auto to manual. Thinking about doing it on a B4 makes baby jesus cry.

[Nicko_]

Is it about the same amount of hassle to do this on a 92 liberty 2wd??
Thinking of doing it as i alreay have everything from the rear end but still need a donor car that i can swap everything else gearbox wise from.

[Dylan]

Mate, doing it on the earlier ones isn't as much of a hassle, talk with Mark (Crusin) and Aaron.W about it. Aaron converted his from fwd to awd, but stayed manual- Mark did auto to manual. I think Aaron did his gen2 with ease.

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Is it about the same amount of hassle to do this on a 92 liberty 2wd??
Thinking of doing it as i alreay have everything from the rear end but still need a donor car that i can swap everything else gearbox wise from.

Mate, if you have a donar car it should be easy as piss because you have all the parts there you need for a direct swap!

The hardest thing of the conversion is finding every part you need.

[Nicko_]

Mate, if you have a donar car it should be easy as piss because you have all the parts there you need for a direct swap!

The hardest thing of the conversion is finding every part you need.

Yeah see what happens