auto to manual swap

[blazing86]

What is needed to swap in a sm465-205 to replace a 700r4-208 in an 86 blazer. I heard someone once mention something about having a new floor put in to do this?

 

[DesertDueler]

You dont need a new floor, but I can tell you from experience its easier to go from a manual to an automatic.

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[dyeager535]

Don't need a new floor, but it would be easy, except your tranny hump is welded in, not bolted like earlier trucks. Problem is the shifter. You can bend the 205 shifter handle to fit the stock 208 hole, but you can't (using stock parts) make the shift boot/plate fit without cutting some new holes or screwing into the body. The 208 tranny tunnel is reinforced from underneath where the 208 shifter hole is.

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Why insist on counting when the ring gear has the tooth counts stamped in?

 

[Chaz88K5]

i just did that swap in a 88 blazer...the onlything you have to do is cut a hole in the floor for the shifter...if you pull up the carpet there will be a endented place in floor on the center hump where you need to cut..its all marked from the factory..also to put in the Hydro clutch set up on the fire wall there are marks there too where the holes need to be drilled for the master cylinder...it wasent that hard to do...i am still tryin to work out bugs tho...my drive shaft angles are off..(not caused from tranny swap..i did the axles too) and i need to pull the shifter out of the tranny and rebend it so it dosent hit my dash when i am in granny or 3rd gear...other than that its no big deal

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