Your are going to need a very good salvage yard or a complete parts donor car in your driveway. Its a lot of bits and pieces that will run you high $ if purchased from a dealer. I put an 86 trans into an 87, was intelligent grunt work. Everything bolts up, no fabrication, welding, cutting, etc. You need everything: bearing that goes into the crankshaft bore (bore was already there on two automatic engines I've had out), flywheel, clutch, pressure plate, pilot brg., trans, crossmember, driveshaft, exhaust pipe bracket, shifter, rods, clips for same, back-up light switch, pedal cluster, clutch master and slave cylinders, hard/flex line for same, a few rubber grommets. Don't forget the wood shifter sorround (also different). When done, its a different car. 4th has the same ratio as the old automatic, put it in 5th and its got legs. Shifter throw was very long, had it modified, much better, but could still be shorter.

The 88's had a different shift pattern. I wanted the early pattern to match my 190.

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Hanno
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