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Automatic to standard conversion. 120-130

posted by  pearl on  Fri Aug 13 00:23 CST 2004
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I was thinking of buying a '66 122 automatic, but would do so only to change it over to a standard. I may even have a lot of the parts - bell housing, peddles, tranny, clutch, master - given to me by a former brickster.
But I wonder what's involved. Welding? Clutch master?
Could anyone give me a rough outline of this conversion?
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    Automatic to standard conversion. 120-130

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    posted by  matt b on  Fri Aug 13 02:28 CST 2004
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    A good start would be to check the archives here at Brickboard... lots of previous discussion on the subject...

    I'm not sure if one needs to replace the whole pedal box, or just replace the brake, and add a clutch pedal. Of course, you'd need the clutch hydraulics (and be sure you have the proper bell housing for the same). You'd need a flywheel. The transmission tunnel on a auto 122 is bigger, and has no hole for the shifter, so there'd at least be some cutting to do. Perhaps the biggest issue though is the crossmember, which needs to go in a different place than the automatic one, and there are no threaded holes where it goes, so there probably would be some welding/cutting involved. Oh... and your driveshaft will probably be too short unless you have just the right M41 with overdrive... some of them have the same length driveshaft.

    Definitely more of a project than doing the same in a 140, which is pretty much a bolt up operation.

    That said, it can be done. And there are folks here who have... but I ain't one of 'em.

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      Automatic to standard conversion. 120-130

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      posted by  JohnMc on  Fri Aug 13 04:55 CST 2004
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      I've only done it in an 1800E and a 145E. Both those later model cars already had all the correct things on the body (floor mounted autobox shifters in the manual tranny hole, crossmember mounts, pedal mounts, etc) to make it an all bolt in operation. I have heard that the 122 automatic's bodies were more specialized, though.
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