Stagea Manual Conversion Guide

[Terminal]

Yes, starting was easy.... Now I need to find time to finish

[yokotas13]

awesome!

hope a speedy finishing unlike mine!

[Terminal]

Hooray, I got the brake pedal out!

[yokotas13]

just a word of advice

take your steering wheel off

THe same bit you use to take off the airbag module under the console, is the same type used on the side of the wheel to hold on the horn pad. then its a 21mm nut under the horn

then disconnect the two connectors and yank it off.

[Ska]

Shouldn't you disconnect the airbag control ECU first, then disconnect the airbag itself?

[Terminal]

I've disconnected the battery, so the airbag shouldn't go off anyway.

[Ska]

Well just to be careful, when I removed my steering wheel, I disconnected battery, then hit the brakes, tried turning the headlights on, to drain any residual power left in the system, then gently unplugged the airbag control unit, then unplugged the airbag, and did the reverse to hook it all back up, hooray, no airbag error light after 5secs of the car running.

[yokotas13]

lol, i just turned the car off, and unpluged the airbag.....i dont think ive ever unhooked hte battery for it

and no airbag light....cause there isnt wont

[Terminal]

Well I didn't need to anyway, I have the new brake pedal box installed and the steering wheel back together.

This is a milestone for me as I've been doing everything at night with a hand held torch. I have many cuts and bruises now.

[darrinspencer]

Well I didn't need to anyway, I have the new brake pedal box installed and the steering wheel back together.

This is a milestone for me as I've been doing everything at night with a hand held torch. I have many cuts and bruises now.

One of the hardest thing I found to do was removing and refitting the smallest part, the saftey pin on the brake pedal to booster rod.

[Ska]

lol, i just turned the car off, and unpluged the airbag.....i dont think ive ever unhooked hte battery for it

and no airbag light....cause there isnt wont

Do you mean there isnt one? Yes there is, middle of the dash in the centre of the speedo.

[Terminal]

One of the hardest thing I found to do was removing and refitting the smallest part, the saftey pin on the brake pedal to booster rod.

That wasn't too bad for me. They hardest bit I found was getting that top bolt back into the pedal box. It took me about half an hour just to get that in. apart from that, I found that once you've undone all the bolts you can twist the whole steering column to get the bracket out of the way, and then the pedal box goes in really easily. I wish I'd figued it out while I was taking the old one out.... oh well, we live and learn

[yokotas13]

Do you mean there isnt one? Yes there is, middle of the dash in the centre of the speedo.

not if you take out that, 4wd, and the abs lights to pass inspection lol

[Terminal]

I got my clutch in the other night, but forgot to stick a picture up. I managed to install the master cyliner, then realise I'd forgotten to put the clutch line in, which wasn't possible to install with the master cylinder in. So out it came, I put the line in an then back it went. All one now, however the engine is in pieces and I'm short a turbo, so no gearbox yet

[yokotas13]

you CAN put i tin with the master cylinder in, but it takes some enginuity and a modified 10mm wrench....i had to do it

[Terminal]

Well I know it's not directly related to the Manual conversion,but I got my new turbo in last night. First time it seems really hard, but if I had to do it again it would be so much easier now I figured out the hard bits.

I'm going to clean up the gearbox next, then next week some time book her in for a gearbox swap!

[Duncan]

at last

will let y'all know if I run into any problems

[darrinspencer]

Duncan

Is that a brand new hand brake lever?

If it is, is it a r33 or R34 one as the Stagea is no longer available thru Nissan

$$$?

[mitchy_]

i've got a 33 handbrake lever if you are after one darrin..

[darrinspencer]

i've got a 33 handbrake lever if you are after one darrin..

I already have a s/hand one, but I was after a nice shiney new one