Greetings Alexander!
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Alexander Bilan wrote to Don Guy:
 AB> Personally, I'm not too worried about a smog retro-fit, as far as I
 AB> am concerned at this moment, its a matter of having what the vehicle
 AB> had when it was built.
That's what I was trying to say. :-)
 AB> And of course they have their fleet of "undercover" taurus cruisers
 AB> patrolling the highways around GTA.
I've seen a couple of these up here, too. I usually encounter one of them on 
Hwy.15 if I'm heading between here and Carleton Place. They're not 
particularly subtle--they're the only dark brown Tauruses I've ever seen with 
multiple antenna masts.
 AB> Here in London a few summers ago there was a cop (in casual attire)
 AB> goading folks into street races with a white mustang.  With regular
 AB> patrol cars strategically utilized.
Nice. :-/  I wonder if he ever heard of the term "entrapment?"
 AB> What kind of tranny swap have you done? Tranny type (original and
 AB> replacement)? What kind and year of vehicle?
Oh, nothing special--I'm just playing with the Acadian ('81).
A friend form work let me take the manual four-speed from his '83 before 
scrapping the remnants of it--I grew up with a stick shift, and this was just 
too good a chance to pass up.
Narry a problem making the switch from the automatic, save for a bunch of 
running around *after* I took everything apart and didn't have a vehicle. :)
I knew I'd need a different driveshaft (manual is ~6" shorter than the auto), 
but forgot to specify four or five-speed when I called the boneyard. 
Naturally I didn't realize that I had the wrong shaft until I tried to 
install the new one.
A slightly different shape in a tranny mount caught me by surprise. Spell one 
more another trip up to the wrecker's.
The only PITA were the bolts holding the old driveplate to the crank. Two of 
'em came out with little grunting, while the other four required the rental 
of an impact wrench for all of 30min (if you include the trip to get it and 
taking it back).
The impact wrench was a neat critter. I'd resigned myself to renting a small 
compressor & a pneumatic wrench, but the rental place had an electric 
version! 
The little beastie went back on the road Thursday... Is it ever nice having a 
real gearshift again. :-)
-Don
... If cows have horns, why do they moo instead of honk?
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