Day 1-Saturday June 26:
Ordered parts from Brims Automotive in Ohio. Took 4 days to arrive in Northern Virginia. Two days to have the parts pulled out of a car and two days to ship.
TOTAL COST: $725 shipped to the door, payed extra because they only ship to businesses, and I wanted it to my door.
Parts list:
-Transmission
-Shifter
-Shift Cables
-Flywheel
-Clutch Master cylinder
-Slave cylinder
-New clutch
-Clutch metal fluid lines
-Rubber clutch line
-Flywheel bolts
-Pressure plate bolts
-Clutch pedal assembly
-Manual brake pedal (just the pedal because John told me you dont need the whole assembly)
-Tranny fluid
-Brake fluid for clutch
-Manual Transmission Drivers Side Mount
-Starter Relay for Manual
-2 bolts for Trans- 12 by 1.25 (1 is 65mm other is 75mm)
-Manual ECU
(I bought it because I dont want to have a constant check engine light)
Extra parts I have bought:
New clutch kit---OEM $100 (pressure plate, clutch, throwout bearing, clutch tool)
TWM short shift kit----$130
Shift Boot---$Free(yes its new)
Shift Knob---$Free(yes its new)
Find HUGE sheets of cardboard. Like refigerator boxes so you don't destory your garage or your drivway with all kinds of crap.
Day 2-Thursday July 1:
Decided to change out CV Boots, change radiator fluid, and fix my cigerette lighter because it has never worked and my dad was to lazy to have Yota fix it when we bought the car new.
Oil will also be changed along with filter.Day 3-Friday July 2:
Installed a cone filter on stock filter tubing. Did custom job on the air sensor into pipe. Very clean and its definitly less restrictive. PROBABLY NO HORSE POWER GAIN!
Day 4-Saturday July 3:
I am removing interior console panels and cleaning all the parts I recieved. They are covered in black dust crap. I think I took a pound of it off the flywheel. (Its the black circle crap on the cardboard, I cleaned it up somewhat.
Well i took some of the panels out and found out why my cig lighter doesnt work. Yota never pluged it in?
Anyway it works now, and now the whole console has been removed except the cd player.Day 5-Sunday July 4:
Today I got most of the panels out of the car and installed the manual brake pedal. The only problem was that there is very little room under the console to work a wrench and a rachet. Thats all I got done before the fireworks and all the food.
Day 6-Saturday July 5:
Took out the auto shifter and all the linkage. Droped the auto trans out of the car and took all the rust off my rear drums for painting. Make sure you remove all the bolts from the torque converter other wise when all the bolts on the transmission are removed the trans wont come out. We forgot to remove these so we had to push the trans back together and figure out that we needed to remove these 6 bolts. Make sure to brace the motor when you remove the trans mounts other wise your motor will drop out. We used a wood board and screwed it into 4x4 as a hoist for the motor to keep it level. Only one mount holds the motor the others are attached to the trans. We used rope to hold the side of the trans since one side is heavier then the other. the rope helped out alot.
WHEN YOU ORDER YOUR TRANSMISSION!! GET THE SAME YEAR CELICA TRANS. I HAVE FOUND OUT THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF DRIVE AXLES. BOLT ON AND ONES WITH KNUCKLES. YOU NEED THE TYPE TRANS THAT HAS THE SAME AXLES AS YOUR CAR. STICK WITH THE SAME YEAR AND YOU WONT HAVE A PROBLEM. example: 96 celi st, get a 96 st manual trans so everything works properly.
