bj4life

hey are the tranny's of the first gens all the same? i have an 80 and i found a transmission from an 83 and one from an 84 will one of them fit?

tmking66

The 79 and 80 transmissions are a little shorter than the 81-85 trannies. It will bolt up to your engine ok but you will have to do a little modification where the shifter enters the car. the 83 will be a couple of inches longer. You would be better off finding a tranny from a 79 or another 80 model.

lovintha7

Isn't the difference just the tailshaft part? And those are interchangeable.

Maguire

iTrader: (1)

actually, the transmission itself is the same length. the only external difference being that the post '81 transmissions have a remote shifter, (sits closer to you) and the 79-80 tranny is direct shift. The tail shafts arent completly compatable, something about the shifter forks being shaped differently. Somone did a write up on it a while back. Was it peejay? i forget.

nevarmore

http://www.geocities.com/izzmus/trans/trans.html

peejay

Only on the very late production '80.

Cutting up the floor of an '80 to put in a weaker transmission with awful shifter placement is sacrilege.