If this ej22 swap into my brat happens, I'll have a ea81 4spd d/r laying around, and a loyale (3spd 4wd auto) with a second bad tranny, Hmm.....

 

this would be a modification of opportunity, when I take a 5speed out of a gl for my brat, I'll rip out all the clutch pedal stuff too, for the loyale.

 

so the question is, can a ea81 4spd d/r fit in an auto loyale? what kind of modifications would I have to do?

 

I would get the clutch pedal assembly and the like out of an ea82 for it, but what problems would I run into for the rest? I have read about auto to 5speed conversions being almost bolt-in on the trannys part, what would be changed with the 4speed?

 

thanks

bump, no one knows?

Easy to do with just a few glitches. First if it has P/S one of the lines will have to be manufactured. another problem is the coolant neck faces the wrong way on one of the intakes, we just put in a copper 90º elbow. those were the biggest challanges, but it worked great. I'm sure there was other stuff but its been a long time since I did mine.

cool, I didn't know anydone had done this swap before

 

do I have to change the shift linkages to make it fit in?

 

also remember this an ea81 4speed not an 82 5spd.

ok, now I really need to know the answer to this, the govenor gear cored itself and the transmission self-destructed on the highway today.

I have a spare Gov shaft if you want to keep the auto for awhile. I can't tell you about the 4spd, we just kept the original 5spd D/R. Tim

can anyone guess the differences? maybe a hypothesis?

 

tanks tim, but It will take more than a governor gear to fix it, this will be the second auto and third governor. no more.

 

I wrote about the tranny here, I think its a good read, funny too.

 

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=24552