Manual Conversion Problems Help!

[steve-gers]

I have encountered a few problems while doing a manual conversion on my 1995 GT. If anyone can answer or help out with any of the following questions then I would be very grateful.

Question 1 - How do you get the gear linkages through the bulkhead, the hole is way to small and twisted and there seems to be a triple skin into the cabin?

Question 2 - What holds the selector cables onto the box to let them push the arms in and out? I am missing these off my box I have put a wanted thread up but pictures of these brackets would help too.

Question 3 - Not really a problem but now that the manual box is all bolted up I turned the crank in gear to feel that the outputs were turning on the box and when I felt them there both turning the same way. Does this mean I have an LSD or does it have anything to do with the shafts not being in? Would be good as both the guy I bought it off and myself had no idea it had an LSD.

[mattyD]

not really much of help but in answer to question number 3, yes........................yes it does

[steve-gers]

Awesome, bought the box off a kinda dodgy guy so I was quite worried and only gave him half the money for it until it's on and I know it's a good box. Anyway it was only a 10 mile drive to pick the box up and I have only gave him £50 just now so even if it is fucked I will keep it for the LSD, happy days

[steve-gers]

It's probably not an LSD guy on tgtt said this is why

There'll be no biased resistance between the pinion gears in the diff, so yes both 'outputs' will turn in the same direction as the diff carrier.

[ryan lang]

thats bullsheesh! i had an old box which i knew wasnt an lsd, and both cups turned opposite direction when off the car

[steve-gers]

Apparently when looking through where the shafts go in if there is a "spider gear" then it is an open diff and if there isn't then it's a limited slip diff. Is that right or wrong?

[morgey]

My gearbox is a lsd box but they turn opposite directions because of the kind of lsd.

Get a picture of thru the driveshaft holes. If is just a narrow 10-12mm pin going across it then its non lsd

If theres a plate across it stopping you seeing thru apart from a tiny gap either side its a oem helical diff from another c series gearbox

Then theres others that are solid plates, some with plates with round holes in them (kaaz) i think are like this etc etc.

I did post up a link to another site somewhere showing the differences.

I can get you a pic of the cable carrier. Its a sort of s shaped bracket with 2 holes in it which are open at the top for the cables to push through

[steve-gers]

I'm 99.9% sure that there are no pins or bars at all, just a hole right the way through can't check until morning though. Any idea what kind of LSD it could be?

Got pics of the cable brackets now mate cheers anyway just need to find somebody that has got them.

Edited December 2, 2012 by steve-gers

[morgey]

Found the link, this may help identify your diff dude ;)

/>http://www.ukstarletowners.com/index.php?showtopic=55996#entry717283

[steve-gers]

It looks exactly the same as that TRD mechanical one

[morgey]

Well you got a bargain then!

[steve-gers]

Just a bit, I will take pictures tomorrow and post them up just to be sure.

[steve-gers]

[russ78]

question 1 = dunno if it helps but I changed mine a while back so just infront the gear stick under carpet there should be a smallish hole just big enough for the cables to go through one at a time, on the bulkhead side should be a rubber grommet the cables need to both go through the middle of this but take it off the hole as it restricts your cables when trying to push them through, the cables will only push through from the cockpit as the connectors for the gear stick don't fit through the hole and only one at a time as already said , then obviously they need to bolt up on top of the gearbox

[russ78]

Question 2 - you need a bracket that bolts up on top of the gearbox I have a spare PM ME

[morgey]

Lsd y0!!

Yeah id say thats a trd mechanical by the looks of it