I finished off the handbrake with just a little eyelet in the floor with a Nutsert, just to hold the cable
up at floor-level so it's not hanging down.
So it it doesn't pick up on anything
Um, that's all working sweet
Uum, next thing we're gonna move onto is the transmission cooler
which we can't put out the front of the car
because there's... there's grill and intercooler
everywhere, it's hard enough fitting the intercooler in there so, um
we're gonna mount it underneath the car
Uuuuuum... Sooooo
I've prepped-up the floor here
Sorta had a bit of a look around, and.. at where I could put it
there's not really enough depth here but here we've got a
a cavity where the seat mounts... Soooo
There's a bit of a... A bit more room there, so
what I've done is I've got Matt to fold me up this channel
Which is gonna be like an air-chute
and also a protector
And the whole lot's gonna go up into here
like that. We're gonna Nutsert it into the sill
and then bracket it up into here
So airflow will come into here and exit out
into the... the space above it
Um
It's not as good at putting it out the front of the car
but in this case, we've got
a massively oversized cooler for a start
'cause it's not a transmission cooler, it's an engine oil cooler, so it's
twice as thick
or three times as thick as you're normal trans-cooler
Eeerm
and also this... the converter's
only 3000rpm, it's not
it's not transbreak or anything like that so you're not boiling the
the transmission fluid on the line, like you
you can do with some vehicles, so um
it's gonna be adequate
We just gotta do with what space we've got
As Sebby would say; treat yourself
Damn you paparazzo!
So what's the secret to loose hose, Alan?
Carwash
Carwash?
They say dish-washing detergent but carwash works better
Carwash makes the
hose loose apparently
Doesn't make it loose, it makes it possible.
Just explain to me what's going on, Al
Uh, so we're... we're putting a shifter cable in
Um
The brief with this was: wanting to
retain the column-shifter, cause its like
original old 70s car inside with the column-shifter
Sooooo, we're just using a, um, B & M shifter-cable to connect
the column to the trans
Um, this trans already had a
B and M shifter controlling it originally, so this
already, it's already got the brackets and stuff from when it was in
your car
So I'm just rigging up something to connect it to to the original shifter-lever here
So, it's gotta be able to still spin when that's tight
and then we just have to make a, an anchor bracket there
sooo, once we've done that, then
you'll get back up into the car and start operating the shifter
and
I'll probably have to change the pivot-point of this
this shift-lever here
'cause that sorta dictates
the distance between shifts and stuff like that
so at the moment it's setup for a B &M shifter
we may need a... it's... you can only... you can go like 2mm and it changes the...
the...
the distance between shifts
so that's what we're doin'
Second
Third
That's displaying third on the gait now
Neutral
Yeah, so Park's on Reverse
be a handful driving this thing
BWAAAAHH BWAAAAAAAAAAH, BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
big power-skids!
What?
Change gears!
What gear you want?
All of 'em! One-by one.
Alrighty then
Stop, no, go back to reverse
Go
Stop
Next
Stop
Next
Let's just Park... Let's just... 'Cause these got longer gait
They go a longer distance between Park and Reverse
Mmmm
So it's always gonna be a bit angry when it goes into Park
Mmmkay
All the other gears are right
Here, gimmie that camera and i'll show you how I test it
Rodriguez has foolishly passed the camera down to me
just so I can show you how we test whether we got our
our rod-links right
so, what you do is: you leave your pin off
so it's in
first.
it's... you're gonna pull it in and out, no worries
then you move it to second
pull it in and out, no worries. Third.
That should always line up, should be always
able to get it in and out. Next!
See; not so good!
Go back to third.
So if w-
forgetting this slow misalignment
that means the rod-length is not right, go back to neutral
i-is that neutral?
it could be reverse
Park
and park won't be right because it never is on these, 'cause they
have a different gait
distance. A lot of autos have that.
Erm
So if you're using a t- an asian Toyota auto
then then you want to use a B & M or a Hurst shifter
You wanna get a Hurst
'cause they don't have a designated gait for
Park, they've just got a long slot
And where as the B & M has a designated gait
and it's not it's not in the right place for the Japanese auto, so
it sorta binds up when you try to put it in Park
So
stuff you have to think about. Obviously that's not the case here
'cause we're using a dirty old shifter out of a...
this car...
So we're gonna have to change this... this here
the length of that to
right the, um
the shift.
So we've had a bit of a fiddle and it looks like we've got to move
the um
the lever hole out.
Half a hole.That's kinda not-that-exacting
Uuum, so I've found another lever in a bunch of crap
for an A340, so we'll do it to this one.
Only problem with these is you gotta thin this right out, 'cause of the
the B & M shifter thing is...
can only go through a very small
gauge steel
so we basically just have to grind that right down.
Doesn't cause any problems. So we'll do that; throw it on and see what happens.
It's, um. It's a bit of trial-and-error with these things
After the shifter cable has been secured,
Al fits some custom-made brake lines for the rear calipers.
So we spend the better part of a day trying to get this
uuh
column shifter to
be friends with the transmission.
uhm
I think we've nailed it now
but there was a hell of a lot of trial-and-error involved
uh we ended up having to modify the actual
shift-gait up in the steering-column, which is not an easy thing to do.
But, looks like we've got it working now, so it's all,
it all clicks into the right bits and the right spots.
I've just welded that anchor-bracket on,
uh, just gonna change that bolt up there 'cause that's temporary,
Uuuhm
and then just sort of
tie it all together down here properly, it's all,
again, temporary because we you gotta
fiddle around with it. Sooo, we'll do that, and then it'll be good to go!
So we spent most of the day
getting the shifter to work
very
tedious job, sooo
don't do it, just put a shifter on the floor like everyone else!
but nah, it is cool, 'cause this is a... original car on the inside
so
it is cool to have the original shifter, 'cause it don't look like anything's
been played with in here. Or that it's a fast car at all
Uuum. Everything works... Except for Park
Park works, but
Park's over here, so
The dial hangs out a bit too far, but we can live with that
So it's got detense
back to first, you got to pull it back,
up to second's okay, up to Drive's okay,
Can't go past Drive.
Gotta pull it up to go into neutral
sooo
it's all good
should work well
We've put the diff altogether as well, we've just gotta get the tailshaft done
Uuum
The brakes are all bled
A few little things to do;
there's a pile of wiring at my feet
for the car
that I have to cut open and pull out the... unwanted bits
Uuh, move some bits around and feed it back through the engine bay
to connect everything back up again
and we have to wire up the transmission control, which is just a
small box with
magic inside it, that makes the solenoid switch when the...
when ya put in into the appropriate gear
'cause it's manually shifted.
So a bit to do, but we're getting there
Alan gets sucked back into some wiring,
the ECU gets plugged in, powered up
and the Fairlane is ready to start
That's on the next episode of The Skid Factory