tranny swap (99lx)=

[jamesmetairie]

if you had a "flooded" 99 lx sedan with stick shift as a donor car how hard would it be to install it into a 99 lx sedan with automatic transmission?

[Davescort97]

It would be time-consuming. You would have everything needed in the donor car to swap it out. If the dimensions of the body are the same for the manual and the automatic it could be done. Everything behind the engine would have to be replaced. Tranny, clutch, bell housing, shifting linkage, clutch master cylinder, tranny mounts, drive shafts and PCM. I'm sure you would get a CEL if you disconnected the electrical connections to the automatic. Physically it could be done, but as far as electrical circuits for the auto and manual I don't know. It would be much easier to sell your automatic Escort and buy a manual shift. If it were me I"d be afraid that 95% of the components would change over, but the remaining 5% wouldn't. It will only take 1 component that won't change over to scrap the whole project. One of the guys recently switched over from Powersteering to manual and the connector to the rack and pinion was different. Unless I heard from somebody that had actually done it, I wouild have my doubts. The underside of your dash may not allow you to just add a clutch pedal. The firewall may not allow you to mount the clutch master cylinder. The dimensions of the body may not allow for switching over the shift linkage. And so on. You get the idea.

[jamesmetairie]

Thanks for the reply. I,m trying to figure any kind of idea to be able to avoid rebuilding the current automatic or installing a used one. Currently it surges around 35 or 40 going into gear, but not always. It seems just at certain rpm,s. So far,I,ve been dealing with it and keeping fingers crossed.