Hi everyone,

I've recently acquired a late-1982 Saab 900-S and despite a few hickups
caused by the starter motor shorting out it's armature causing a small fire
in the wiring to the starter relay, etc. (including collapsing a cell in the
battery), the car runs fine.

I'm going a lot of cosmetic stuff like replacing broken headlight and
taillight assemblies, cleaning up some of the messy non-factory wiring, etc.
but one thing I'm very keen on is replacing the 3-speed auto transmission
with a 5-speed manual transmission.

I have seen websites about doing this, but was wondering if any of you have
actually done it?

I currently have an early 1983 Saab 900 GLi coming down from another state.
The car has no rego and the engine isn't in superb condition but I view it
as a source of parts since Saab parts here in Australia are astronomically
expensive.

The car has a 5-speed manual tranmission and if it's ok, I'd be looking at
maybe doing a transmission swap-over on the running vehicle.

If you've done the changeover yourself, was there anything in particular you
found which went wrong, or you had to be careful of, which isn't readily
noted in existing documentation in the various books on the early 900's such
as the Bentley manual, etc.?

Craig.
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"Craig Ian Dewick" <craig (AT) lios (DOT) apana.org.au> wrote

Its pretty straight forward though rather time consuming, Use the oil pick
up pipe from the manual box, It looks the same but has a different bend on
it, so gets knocked out of the pump when fitting. all the holes and fittings
are there its just a case of swapping over parts. Regards Tom Saabtech