Good progress today
I've swapped the flexplates and flywheels from one motor to the other
I've not put the loctite in nor torqued anything down yet.
With the help of my neighbor and his tractor we moved each of the transmissions to the opposite buses.
This is Bus89...ready to receive the AT545 (on it's "sled" )
and here is the A-2000 on it's "sled"
Tomorrow I'll use the ratchet strap to inch them under the buses, and then also down the way until they are lined up where I slung them before to get them off the transmission jack. It's calling for rain Tuesday-Thursday so I want to at least stuff them under the buses out of the wet.
This will also give me more time to do research to see if "balance" or any other things would be an issue with the swap... So far all the parts have swapped over without issues. Everything lines up perfect so far.
I ended up concentrating on the dirty mechanical work today first, so I ended up out of time and too many pints in me to get on with the harness.
I've got it all out from under bus 89.. next phase it to separate the harness cover and see where the couple of extra wires go off to and label them.
I have identified the diag port wires as they were easy and have their own plug.
I have identified that on the Vista bus there is the same large plug with the large red wire and a white wire... this is the keyed power, and this is the same on bus 89. So this is encouraging, as I won't have to run a new power wires.
The sensors on the two trans of course are different when it comes to the connectors, so that will have to be sorted... I'll post a pic tomorrow of the A-2000 with a couple circles and show you what I am dealing with.
but so far there doesn't seem to be a "whole lot" of wires to deal with in respect that it is a "smaller handful" than I thought
so now to kick back and have a relax... I've got a lot done in two days.
I am going to ask and do some research on this whole flywheel swap and see if I am somehow making some kind of grave error, but so far everything swapped over without a single issues, so we will see
If you are following and have any advice, or just encouragement please shout out. I've decided to just go ahead and throw myself out there with this build in the hopes it might either help, or inspire someone to get out there and do it.
the first thing I have learned, at least on my buses, is that pulling the transmissions were
1. not that hard
2. not as many bolts and weird fasteners as I thought
3. Heavy, but honestly there was a ton of room to work, the vista being even better for access than the conventional bus so far.
cheers
dave