I finally got the tranny of my '84 300DT into my brother's car (mits mirage '98 sick of driving it).

Now I need some advise. Some say that since my tranny failure occured all of a sudden that it could be a torque converter problem. But when I bled my torque converter the tranny fluid that came out of there looked healthy and free of any shrapnel. I also dont think that it was a vacuum problem because there was no rough shifting.

Is my best bet to replace the whole thing cuz I found some trannies in town f/ $400 w/ about 90k?
Or should I go with the popular conversion, but my concern w/ that is that it looks like there is a lot of fabrication and modification to do that. Will a manual tranny of an '84 300DT bolt right up to mine?
Furthermore are there any other manual trannies off of a w123 that bolt right up to mine.

any input welcome.

Also thanks to all of those that replied to my previous posts becuase I would not have been able to remove the tranny w/out them.

almadroog

Remember, with a manual tranny conversion, you've got clutch work also.

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

So far, it seems pretty easy to me. I'm starting fresh with a new engine and an empty engine bay so that might make it easy on the difficulty.

Since my 240 came w/the manual setup, the big fabs for me are:

Shorten driveshaft
" shift rods
mod. tranny mount
resurface flywheel
swap adaptor plates on the engine.

No biggie, just TAKE YOUR TIME. Enjoy the experience.

Your case would also involve transferring the clutch pedal assy and hydraulics.

Oh, and be sure to clean the engine compartment really well while everything is easy to get at.