s13 gearbox pics????
 

hey is there anyone who has done the conversion to the s13 gearbox got any photos of it all done, like a pic of the inside where the new location for the gear leaver is?????

just tryin to get some ideas for when i get mine fitted

japster has the s14 box in and that sits right to the back and the centre console had to be cut.

Ive got one of an s14 box fitted in a s12 wiith the relocated gearlever. Is that any good?

yes my pic is of japsters/dens

post it up then,lol.

yea thanks for that, i imagined it to be alot worse than that,

what about the driveshaft does it fit?

front what i can gather no it needs to be shorterned about 50mm i think

S14 box is same length as S13, I had to cut the hole in the floor back on my car about 3 inches to get the S14 one in. I used the original gearbox mount, and it bolted up to the original position but needs the holes opening out a little.

What gearbox did you have previously? ie mk1 or mk2?

If its the mk1, cut the dust shield off of the prop and fit in in the gearbox. Then you may have to redrill the floor for the centre bearing bracket. The mk2 props dont have the dust shield on them as this is incorporated on the box.

You might be lucky and find the centre bearing is direct bolt up so you can then just get the rear half shortened.

i had a mk1, what i was looking at doing was keeping the rear shaft that goes onto the diff standard and just ajusting the front shaft from the box

Best to see what its like once the box is in place.

On my Datsun the standard prop with a mk1 style front end is only about 5mm too long despite the shifter being 3" back

o rite so you managed to shunt the unit 5mm back with out modifing the props

I could probably get it in there with brute force but this would be bad news on the gearbox oil seal. It needs to be pretty reasonable to account for subframe and engine movements.

Gonna have a go at shortening the prop myself as I have 2 spare anyway. Once I'm happy with its length then I will get a custom one made.

yea, will just have to play a game of trial and error when i have the motor built :rolleyes:, might try and look into any other nissans that run the same sort of prop shafts and see if any are a little shorter. If not send it to the prop shaft clinic

s13 and s14 boxes are 50mm longer than mk2 s12 box and the gera lever is 65mm further back.

I can't remember if the mk1 box is shorter than the mk2 box. I think its shorter so maybe more than 50mm if thats the case.

Most of the custom props we have done are 100mm splined telescopic. This makes them extremely universal,doesnt stress gearbox and diff seals and easier to fit and remove

Does that work like the sliding assembly as seen on the old type UJ halfshafts then?