Thread: 5 speed Nissan box

Originally Posted by drifter

As mentioned in an earlier thread, I have a 2a with a 253 V8 connected to some sort of 5-speed gear box.

I am assuming it is a Nissan box. Is there any quick way to tell while it is all in the vehicle?

It is connected to a standard LR transfer case.

My other question is, if indeed it is a Nissan box, is there any mechanism you know of that allows for a reversing lamp connection on these boxes?

Thanks in advance.

Hi John,

My Nissan box has 2 x black rubber boots on the drivers side of the casing, not sure what the rearmost one is all about yet, but it contains a part of the reverse shifter mechanism, and probably should be left alone.

I found the reverse switch beneath the forward most positioned rubber boot, located roughly in the middle, and toward the top of the box.

I'll try to add an image pointing to its location.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for that, Ross

That first pic is a beaut. I am still actually trying to ascertain whether or not is IS a Nissan box. The only thing I know for a fact is that it is a 5-speed.

I can't get pics from underneath as I just don't have the clearance to get a camera in under there.

Pics from the top show very little. I'll post some. Without taking the flooring and covers off I am pretty much in the dark and I really don't want to start on this one until the other one is finished.

One thing I have managed to do is crawl underneath with a tape measure and get some very rough measurements of the 3 items that make up the gearbox. They are very approximate because there is little room under there for a fat boy and even less when the fat boy is trying to avoid a hot exhaust pipe and wave his arms around with a tape measure in them.

Anyway, the adapter is approximately 3"

The bell housing is roughly 7.5"

The gearbox is about 9.75" in length and, if it's a clue, is painted blue.

This is from the passenger side, looking across the rocker cover to the bell housing and gearbox. Thar rusty looking object middle top is the clutch slave cylinder.



From drivers side, closeup of slave cylinder and what must be an illegal fluid hose! :



Another shot of same:



Back to passenger side view. You can see the end of the fairly shallow bell housing and the top of the gearbox:



Same view, slightly different angle:

Ross,

Above the red arrow in your first pic, there appears to be some sort of identification on the top of the box. Yes?

I looks like I an going to have to remove the floor and tunnel to get to the bottom of this...

Originally Posted by drifter

I can't get pics from underneath as I just don't have the clearance to get a camera in under there. That would be right

One thing I have managed to do is crawl underneath

Yeah rite

John Boy,

Were you not supposed to be getting your LWB going properly this weekend so you could take it in for rego next week and then have it on the road.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Yeah rite

I suspect you would have a similar problem

Originally Posted by garrycol

John Boy,

Were you not supposed to be getting your LWB going properly this weekend so you could take it in for rego next week and then have it on the road.

Yup

We were going to be getting the engine running properly this weekend but never managed to arrange it.

It's too damned cold to be working out on that driveway, anyway. There is a very cold breeze racing through that chills you to the bone.

Anyway, the adapter is approximately 3"

The bell housing is roughly 7.5"

The gearbox is about 9.75" in length and, if it's a clue, is painted blue.

There is also another section at the rear that bolts on to the transfercase - looks like the one in your picture.



Another crawl underneath *sigh* has shown what looks like a rubber bulb thingy sticking out the side of the box - it may be what I am looking for. It looks very much like the one in your picture.

It also revealed a number on the drivers side of the box - I am assuming it is a serial number. Above it was a symbol. Hard to see under there but it looked like a circle with an H or a W inside the circle.

It looks like an H I think.

Here is a pic from the crappy mobile phone that sorta shows it and shows the black rubber bulb thing: