Transmission Swap and other things

[HusseinHolland]

Don't forget to grind back the shifter base above the pivot (fore and aft), or it will hit the casing - at least my 75 shifter in the 280ZX 5 speed did

[siteunseen]

I put the wide B 5 speed in my '72. Wouldn't stay in gear until I ground it down. You can do all the install and see what happens. Taking the shifter out is not hard if you need to grind some off.

[Yarb]

The later ZX shifter with the wafer bushing worked well for me. As you know each of these cars are different somehow.

[Zed Head]

58 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

You can do all the install and see what happens.

This is good avice.  You don't even need to put the clip on the pin.  You can check it before the transmission is installed.  It will be obvious.  But, loose bushings will make it worse.  

[SteveE]

Transmission is out  YEA!  All went well not to much drama. Clutch and flywheel are also out.  Still need to get the pilot bushing out, will try the bread trick.

New bushing does slide onto the five speed main shaft. 

The four speed has a neutral switch the five speed does not wondering what I have to do with the wires @SteveJ if anything.

Next step is finsh getting the five speed ready to install. (seals, front cover gasket, reverse switch, speedo gear, clutch fork, sleeve, bearing)

12mm offset wrench worked great for the propeller shaft nuts. completly slides over the nuts with full engagement.  No interference with the diff cross member.

[SteveJ]

Well, if you don't have the neutral switch on the 5-speed, it means you lose the capability of connecting the annoying as hell seat belt buzzers. (Just leave the wires hanging.)