![]() Some 02As use big shafts like the 02J, others use a smaller shaft which will not accept the 02J tower without replacing the receiver. ![]() #O2A TO O2J SHIFTER SWAP INSTALL#If the shaft of the 02J does not slide into the receiver on the bottom of the tranny, you will need to drain your gear oil and install the 02J shift tower receiver on the bottom of the tranny (then refill with gear oil). You can verify this by test fitting the 02J shift tower.if it goes all the way in,and you can seat it on the transmission case, you are set. Some boxes require you to swap the lower tower receiver portion, others do not. Installing the 02J shift tower is very straight forward. Once the 13s are removed, you should be able to break the sealant loose on the 02A shift tower to remove it. I don't have too many pics of this but it is rather straight forward.I'll take some updated pics asap and add to this thread.īasically to remove your factory shift tower from the tranny, you disconnect the cables (this should already be done at this point), then remove the (2) 13mm on each side of the shift tower. Re: 02J Shift Box/Cables and Shift Tower retrofit into/onto an 02A.lots of pics (radoboy) The 02J uses a floating ball design and feels much more precise than the older 02A box. The top box is a stock 02A shifter and the bottom is an 02J. The cable ends are interchangeable though, so if you have a ball/socket shift tower, and a pin/clip style cable setup, you can just source ball/socket style cable ends. If you run this style shift tower you must use this style cable ends. The late style is 2002+ I believe, and uses a pin and retaining clip. If you run this style, you must run the cable ends that match. These are at the up/down and side-to-side connection points on the shift tower. The 2 recommended types are described here.The early style (2000 to 2002 I believe) uses ball/socket style cable connections at the tower. The 2000+ styles use all metal on the shift tower and connection points, and a floating ball design at the shift box (the piece you shift with pivots on a ball). I would not recommend using this type of shift tower/cable/box setup. ![]() It also uses a shift box/cable setup very much like the 02A stuff. The very early style uses a shift tower with plastic connection points and a big black plastic housing on top of the shift tower like the 02A VR6 shift tower. Note: There are 3 styles of shift towers/cables. I gave up and am just going to run an aftermarket shift knob with set screws. It is also slightly larger than a 12x1.5mm die, so threading it may be quite hard. The 02J shifter shaft is not threaded like the Corrado/other VWs. 02J style shift knob, aftermarket knob which attaches via set screws, or some way to thread the 02J shifter shaft to 12x1.5mm. 02J shift tower receiver portion (this was required on a G60 box, but not on a VR6 box.the part I am talking about is on the bottom of the tranny and sometimes has the VW logo cast into it.it accepts the shift tower shaft on the transmission). 02J shift box and cables (with cable bracket that mounts to the tranny) #O2A TO O2J SHIFTER SWAP PLUS#Your original 02A transmission is retained so that is a plus Readily available parts (from any 02J car). ![]() Readily available short shift setups (TT shifter, B&M, Diesel Geek etc). Much less 'slop' than the factory 02A stuff ![]() On all of the 02J/02M cars I have driven, the shifters felt much nicer and more solid/precise than my 02A setups. Grab a beer because this post is a bit long.īasically what I wanted to do was replace the factory sloppy 02A shift box/cable setup, with something more precise and newer feeling. I've seen a couple mentions to doing this, but nothing all that detailed. Sorry if something like this thread already exists. ![]()
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