fuel's Lancer Evo IX GT-A wagon

[fuel]

Also added a sneaky MR badge - when its manual swapped I have an 'Evolution MR' badge ready for the centre console/shifter surround too.

[fuel]

Forgot to mention, I also rebuilt the throttlebody with new shaft seals and idle screw o-ring a few weeks back. Figured it would be worthwhile doing now that it's pushing through a lot more boost than originally. Now I really gotta stop procrastinating and get that box back together!

[fuel]

Starting to get the box back together

Have got the other half of the case on and it seems to shift through the gears fine, but I ran out of daylight at that point to take more pics. Over next few days am going to seal it up properly after doing some more thorough testing and paint up the case.

[Hemi]

44 minutes ago, fuel said:

Starting to get the box back together

Have got the other half of the case on and it seems to shift through the gears fine, but I ran out of daylight at that point to take more pics. Over next few days am going to seal it up properly after doing some more thorough testing and paint up the case.

Are you not on the ground floor, holy moly rebuilding a gearbox on a table outside above ground makes me want to hide. how did you not lose every single detent

[Hemi]

Mint outcome though!

[fuel]

haha yeah doing a ghetto apartment balcony build, it's the only place I could really do it - can't leave all the parts out in the open in the parking garage and don't want the apartment smelling like gear oil haha. I had all the parts organised in either trays or little baggies. I did lose a c-clip that sprung off to under the centre diff right when I got all the shift forks back in, which required me to pull the damn lot back apart again which was fun. But at least it allowed me to double check my work and I felt more confident putting it together the second time round.

[fuel]

so test fitting box the box together and tested shifting with the shifter connected and seems to go through all the gears all good. I just gotta pull the case apart one last time to fit the internal C clip (which you can see the access bung loosely sitting in place) and then RTV seal the case halves together and it's done. I did spray as much of the case as I could with some left over Dupli-colour wheel silver I had left over, but ran out of paint before I could get the whole box done. Need to give the transfer case a touch up too so may as well pick up another can and finish off the job properly.

[mjrstar]

There is a skateboard bearing which is a direct fitment for the shifter ends where they connect to the gearbox.

 

This takes some of the spongy feel out of the gear shift. I did mine in situ with a g-clamp but you could do yours easily prior to installation. 

[fuel]

Is not easy to make out in the pics but I've fitted some torque solutions shifter bushes (just didn't place on the giant e-clips because they gotta come off again):

But good call on the skateboard bearing trick though - last time I was in NZ I ordered a bulk amount off Trademe and fitted them to the VR-4, Diamante & GTO. I had actually replaced the shifter bushes on the VR-4 more than 10 years ago but they seem to have deteriorated some in that time. Also picked up some solid shifter mount bushes and solid driveshaft hanger bearing mount bushes too in the same order.