rustman1984
Active member
Hey man, this post is older now and the all the pictures and attachments no longer work. Do you still have the wiring PDF available?
Project Kill Da Auto Wabbit!, Or how I learned to love the Manual Swap
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boertje
Veteran Member
The howto in my sig might be of use.
Unfortunately @alphaseinor is no longer with us, but there is a chance his good friend @pkhoury may still have access to that information.
codeweiler
Member
Does anyone know anything about him? Saved many asses with this thread and likely hundreds of thousands of dollars in shop repairs
Yes @pkhoury was pretty close with him, as I understand it they worked together on a lot of different projects. Here is the thread about Brian's passing:
The passing of a long time TDIclub member, Brian Hague (alphaseinor)
I wanted to announce the passing of a longtime TDIclub member, and one of my best friends, Brian Hague, known here as @alphaseinor . Brian passed away in his sleep Tuesday night (which would've been the 5th), in San Antonio, TX. Brian pioneered the mk4 5 speed swap/writeup, was a TDI enthusiast...
Matt-98AHU
Loose Nut Behind the Wheel Vendor
Check boertje's signature.
A lot of us had issues with alphaseinor's wire colors in his original version at least.
I've done dozens of manual swaps and I still like to use boertje's PDF as a quick reference on wiring. It has photos as well...
I sometimes do a slight variation on it. And I've had to make up my own way of doing things on BEWs and gas engines as well. Having VW's wiring diagrams certainly helps when figuring out a slightly different way of doing things. I have done a Beetle DSG to manual too... probably something else I should contribute to that file! Should have taken more photos when I was doing this sort of thing more regularly.
Speaking of, for those cars that originally had a 09A automatic, one way of simplifying the VSS wiring is to not even wire the VSS sensor up at all. Just make sure you have the right connection for VSS from instrument cluster output going to the ECU. Then hack the cluster to pick up VSS via CAN bus from the ABS module so you don't have to do all that wiring for the VSS. Plus, that opens you up to being able to use newer transmissions that don't have that sensor anyway....
rustman1984
Active member
Very good info here. That definitely points me in the right direction, thank you!
pkhoury
That guy with the goats
I still miss him A LOT. I'd be lying if I didn't think about him most of the days during the week, especially as I'm still going through and listing the retro computer stuff I bought from his estate.Yes @pkhoury was pretty close with him, as I understand it they worked together on a lot of different projects. Here is the thread about Brian's passing:
The passing of a long time TDIclub member, Brian Hague (alphaseinor)
I wanted to announce the passing of a longtime TDIclub member, and one of my best friends, Brian Hague, known here as @alphaseinor . Brian passed away in his sleep Tuesday night (which would've been the 5th), in San Antonio, TX. Brian pioneered the mk4 5 speed swap/writeup, was a TDI enthusiast...forums.tdiclub.com
That said - he did two manual swaps for cars I have here; my Ute, that I'm contemplating selling (I honestly lost 99% of interest in that project after he passed away), and my DSOL Golf that I drive in rotation with DSEL (which is a native 5 speed). In theory, I could use either car as a reference for photos. Pretty much, the TCM comes out, coding for the engine is done to block 1 in VCDS (unless you're using one of @burpod 's tunes, where the coding number doesn't affect transmission type anymore), and you're wiring in the two relays on the clutch pedal, and the two sensors on the transmission. I think one is for reverse and the other is a speed sensor. I forgot what wires go where on the ECU/TCM harness, but it's pretty straightforward. I regret not watching exactly what he did, when he last did it for me in 2022 on DSOL, but I finally did 100% of the mechanical part myself. Getting the original automatic POS out is also nice, as you don't have access to the left side LCA with that boat anchor in the way.