Looking for advice on 5spd swap..

[ElGeeFived]

I've got my 282 bolted up to my engine right now sitting outside (car was getting painted anyway)
But i'm curious of the easiest way to get the pedal assy out of the car!?! (The whole dash is out)

[TGPilot]

I know I pulled my dash out completely...but I do not remember if it was absolutely necessary. I know it made it much easier with nothing in the way.

You might try pulling the drivers seat so you can lay more comfortably on your back to see what you need to get at.

Now I am trying to remeber if the dash had to come out to get to the mounting bolts??? or if the bolts go through the firewall for the brake/clutch mount assembly. :icon_redface: I can not remember sorry.

[ElGeeFived]

haha, it's OK. I'll probably figure it out. The engine's out, enterior's out, dash is out, i've got the room to work with, but i know there is going to be ONE bolt that holds me back from pulling the assembly out, that's the way it works with everything. It's always the last fucking bolt.

[twinturbosedan]

should be really easy with the dash out.  i did mine with the dash all in place.  removing the clutch pedal wasn't too hard but the brake pedal was a total PITA!  i removed my front seat so i could lay on my back with my head crammed up under the dash while i removed the bolts :laugh:  i couldn't actually see the bolts so i just had to go by feel.  they don't go through the firewall it's more like a hinge bolt that goes through part of the dash frame IIRC.

[ElGeeFived]

should be really easy with the dash out.  i did mine with the dash all in place.  removing the clutch pedal wasn't too hard but the brake pedal was a total PITA!  i removed my front seat so i could lay on my back with my head crammed up under the dash while i removed the bolts :laugh:  i couldn't actually see the bolts so i just had to go by feel.  they don't go through the firewall it's more like a hinge bolt that goes through part of the dash frame IIRC.

See that's the great thing. I can't work too well laying up inside of there, cuz i'm kinda clostrophobic, and...i'm 6'6!! BAD combination, i'm huge, clastrophobic, and going into a small space upside down. I can do it..i can do it....i can do it

[twinturbosedan]

Also the links are dead and I thought I saw some similar pics somewhere on the web before. Does anyone have or knows a link to anything that shows the modifications made for the cables and firewall?

sorry i must have moved the pics somewhere else on my site....

that is the hole you have to modify...the one on the firewall next to the brake booster.  you basically need to make the round hole into a square hole.  then you can put the clutch master cylinder in and turn it to lock it into place:
http://www.turbosedan.com/cutlass/trans/clutchmasterhole.JPG

i wish i had a pic of the hole after i modified it but i don't.  just take a look at the square end of the clutch master cylinder (the end that goes into the firewall) and try to copy the size/shape of it when you cut.

this is where you need to drill the hole for the shifter cables:
http://www.turbosedan.com/cutlass/trans/shiftercablehole.JPG

[blackbird]

Much thanks. Hopefully the donor car is still there, since I'm heading up this afternoon to start stripping everything out of it with a friend. Got to love the half price days at the junk yard.  :icon_mrgreen: