Please Help!!!

[jayburd]

i have got a new engine and was wandering if it matters that it came out of an automatic....1992 mine is a standard.....1993
will i have any problems Going from an engine that came off the automatic to putting it onto the manual tranny....??

thnx

[RossT]

No problem at all. Same engine!

[crazyinkc]

Don't forget to change the mounting bracket for the front engine mount. They are different. It is the one that mounts above the A/C compressor. The flywheel will bolt right on and the pilot bearing is in the flywheel which makes it easy.

[Crvett69]

i think there is a spacer plate on rear of crankshaft for automatic. make sure you pop it off before you install flywheel

[MetroFreek]

Hey Folks,
I'm in a similar pit with jayburd. Only my new engine came from another 92, I think, with an auto. My Metro is a 92 manual trans.
O.K., I removed the flywheel from the new engine. I noticed the metal plate from between the f.wheel and the rear of the crankshaft. Someone on another Metro Site said to cast the plate aside. So, done.
My big problem is that neither the bolts from my old flywheel nor the ones from the new engine seem long enough to reach the threads on the back of the crank shaft!!! What the.. .???? The flywheel I'm using is the one for the manual tranny. "Teeth" side is closest to the engine with clutch holes facing out.
I'm brain-busted! What do I do now? Both the Haynes and the Geo Shop Manual say 0 about these differences. What is going on here folks ?

Stumped,

Karl

[MetroFreek]

O.K. I found the answer to my question. There are TWO plates between the flywheel and the rear of the crank shaft on an engine mated with an auto tranny. A thinner plate is directly behind the flywheel. A thicker plate is between the thinner one and the crank shaft. My thicker one was slightly stuck onto the rear of the crank!! One slight pull and off it came!! Boy am I glad to be past that !

Karl

[Crvett69]

thats the one i was refering to, the thin one is just a washer for the bolts

[MetroFreek]

Update:
I got the flywheel on and the OLD clutch. The new clutch disc was about 3/16" smaller in diameter than the original! Plus the original was not extremely worn. I figured they'd last about the same amount of time so I just put in the old one . What the hay? Oh yeah, the old t.o. bearing was still in good shape too, woo-hoo!
Next I had to remove the alt. and A/C compressor and mounts so I could shoe-horn that puppy back into the transaxle. Not easy, but we did it today!!! Yay!
Now I need to clean off all the old oil that was blown around the old engine mounts and stuff and reassemble this thing.

Hey, I thoroughly checked over the intake manifolds, old and "new", for differences and exchange needs. The only difference is a small, brass, "breather" tube which sticks out of the back of the intake man. below the throttle body. I tried to pull it out of the old intake to use on the new one, but it's in there really tight. I don't want to break that tube. I could put "liquid wrench" on it to help loosen it. Any other suggestions to remove that little pin WITHOUT MASHING IT TO DEATH?? (I will not exchange whole intake just so I have one with that little breather pin. That would be insane!! Plus the old intake is probably filled with old dried engine gunk. The old engine threw a piston shaft or arm or whatever and oil went throughout the innards of the engine including the intake.) Thanks for helpful info.!

I'll post as progress happens.

Cya!

Karl