T 56 swap in my G Body
 

Finally started swapping the T 56 in my Monte.

Got the 4l60e out.

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Got the McCleod rxt twin disc clutch installed.

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Getting the T 56 ready to go in.

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Finally got the trans mated to the engine. Did not want to go together easy at all. Kept having to mod the floor because of the shifter and reverse lockout.

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Tomorrow is the crossmember and a few others things.

Looking good Ronald! Been looking for a T56 for myself lately

Awesome! Great progress so far.

Looking good Ron!

What you doing with the 4l60, and how big was the stall?

Looking good bud

looking good ron.

Thanks.

The 4l60 is already sold to a friend. Stall is a 3600.

Crossmember is done. Driveshaft needs to be shortend a bit.

Shifter is installed. At the moment I'm using the factory Hurst shifter that came with the trans.

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thats awesome ron, hows your reach feel with the stick. what did you use for the clutch peddle and how did you install it?

So who is doing all the work? I know your old ass aint crawling in and outta that thing lol

Looking good man. Good talking to you yesterday.

I have a set of original G body clutch/brake pedals. They are being installed next weekend with the hydraulics also.


Thanks Justin. Same talking to you.

We are doing it at the shop I work at. and yes I am doing some of the work. :shakin: :shakin:

I've heard extremely good things about the MGW Short Shifter

Personally I have Lou's Short Stick mounted to the SLP Short Shifter and it's good as well....

But either way I think you'll find a Short Shifter is huge improvement!!

This is going to be a fun car to drive with a stick. Nice work.

Thanks.

Thanks Eric. I was thinking of the MGW or the Pro 5.0 shifter.

Mgw is great butt fave is stock hurst and a lous stick

I have the mgw in my car. It's super short throw for sure.

looks good ron! i hope to be starting mine in about 3 weeks

Crossmember we did last week and driveshaft shortened and installed.

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Pedals ready to be installed.

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Clutch master cylinder installed

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New used power booster installed, Brake master cylinder reinstalled. Clutch master cylinder is just sitting there at the moment.

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Ran into a small problem last night. I bought a used slave cylinder off of LS1 tech(almost new) and installed that and went to hook up the clutch master line and it wouldn't snap together. Didn't realize they made 2 different ends(green and gold color). I found a new line available from Hawks 3rd gen but it wont be here till thursday.

My new shifter should be here this week so we should be ok again. Hopefully we can work on it this coming weekend unless we get buried with more snow as they say is coming.

Got the new MGW shifter today. Looks sweet!

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Getting the pcm flashed this weekend if Slowhawk isn't being bitchy. Lol!

Looking good, and the extra bonus is now we don't have to listen to you bitch about the 4l60 all the time!! :haha:

Looking good there ron.

I never really bitched about it. Just hated the damn thing! lol

Jesus.. youre not done yet? Gonna have it out for 2014? lol

Nice Bitch!

Only working on it on saturday/sunday. Taking this weekend off.

Ohh jeez that heap will never get done!

And yours will??? When was the last time you actually drove your car? 3/4/5 years ago?

July 2012.. :-x

Unfortunately I haven't had any updates because we've been trying to get my clutch pedal bled in the car. Cannot get any pedal what so ever. I've tried 2 different masters, new clutch master line to the slave and 2 different slave cylinders. I've also bench bled the master, tried the mity-vac method, vacuum bled it and pressure bled it. Still nothing. We backfilled through the bleeder line and got the slave cylinder filled with fluid but still nothing.

I'm almost ready to get rid of the hydraulics and go mechanical. We're going to take everything apart again to make sure nothing is screwed up. Getting very aggravated now. There is no reason that we can see why my car doesn't have any clutch pedal.

What year hydraulics?

2002 Camaro ss is what I've been getting.

I had the same problem when I converted my car. Not exactly sure what I had to do but I remember having to take the slave off the transmission and bleed it somehow by hand under the car. I googled it for instructions, that's about all I remember. Don't know if it will help you or not but thought I'd share. I feel your frustration. Don't give up.

You have an lt trans, slave is external. The slave is internal on the ls t56. We're pulling trans again tonight. This sucks.

Get a tick speed bleeder

He already had one and still nothing. They have tried almost everything

Never seen a G body with a manual trans, should be interesting!

Well, if your using the ac delco aftermarket master(it's metal,not plastic) those are huge problems.

The system is very easy. The line from the master to slave is new too, correct? I've seen those collapse lines.