Ok folks, here it is. I have a 78 Cruising Wagon with a 2.3L engine and a manual transmission. I traded for the car last year, finally got it running this spring, and now it's out to get the tranny hooked up. And then they tell me it (Apparently a C-5?) will not work in this car. At the moment, I'm stuck, no pun intended. Here are my options, as I see them.
1 - Buy a manual transmission, have it shipped in and installed. I can't do transmission work, way out of my depth.
2 - Take the manual transmission from my other CW (Same year and engine) and have it installed in the car at the shop.
Then take an automatic from one of my Bobcats, install it in the CW, and part out/scrap the Bobcat. Is radiator work going
to be necessary with this approach? What else, if anything? I'm assuming it will be a list.
3 - Sell the car as is, scrap/sell the Bobcats and other CW, say to hell with it all, and buy a Metropolitan or a van.
Quote from: FlyerPinto on March 23, 2011, 07:45:16 AM
Ok folks, here it is. I have a 78 Cruising Wagon with a 2.3L engine and a manual transmission. I traded for the car last year, finally got it running this spring, and now it's out to get the tranny hooked up. And then they tell me it (Apparently a C-5?) will not work in this car. At the moment, I'm stuck, no pun intended. Here are my options, as I see them.
1 - Buy a manual transmission, have it shipped in and installed. I can't do transmission work, way out of my depth.
2 - Take the manual transmission from my other CW (Same year and engine) and have it installed in the car at the shop.
Then take an automatic from one of my Bobcats, install it in the CW, and part out/scrap the Bobcat. Is radiator work going
to be necessary with this approach? What else, if anything? I'm assuming it will be a list.
3 - Sell the car as is, scrap/sell the Bobcats and other CW, say to hell with it all, and buy a Metropolitan or a van.
Hi Matt!
I don't know anything about transmission work either, but I'd have to absolutely nix option three! I mean.... really??
Option one sounds like your most logical move but, in the final analysis, it is your car and your decision! Best of luck with whichever route you go.
Dwayne :smile:
Just very very frustrated. I was supposed to have both of my cars in a show this weekend and this shop has had the car since Christmas, if I remember correctly. They just now get to the thing and this is the news they give me. (I do look good in a van though) I have found another tranny on a different site, but I need some verification from other folks that it really is what they are telling me. I'll try to post the photos and go from there.
I would love to put an automatic in my other Cruising Wagon anyway, if the one from the Bobcat would work that could solve a lot of issues across the board for me.
if you were close, i have a good c3 from a thunderbird turbocoupe that would bolt right in.... free!!! im in columbia sc. you would need a convertor and flexplate, both available new at advance or the like.
Send me a PM and maybe we can work something out. Thanks for getting with me, I appreciate it.