Hey guys, new here this is my first post. I have a 2003 Protege5 with a manual transmission. A couple of years ago the transmission died and I had to swap it for another one that I bought on Ebay and had my mechanic put in. At the time I was aware of the two different types of transmissions for the car, one with a speed sensor and one without, and the guy on Ebay assured me both would fit. (I assumed that my mechanic could just take the speedsensor for my old broken transmission and put it into the new one that I got off Ebay that DIDNT come with a speedsensor attached). Turns out he couldn't do it so I was left with a running car that doesn't have a working speedometer that can't pass a smog test. Car's been sitting in a lot and I'm finally ready to work on it again. Been talking to a new mechanic telling him I'm going to have to buy whole new transmission with a speedsensor and swap it again to make it work finally - he told me that I might be able to just get a speedsensor from another protege5 transmission and mount the sensor onto my tranny that didn't come with one. Is there any truth to this or is he wrong?
tldr: I have a manual transmission model that comes without a speedsensor, that is already installed into a Protege5 that originally had a transmission WITH a speedsensor. Can I grab the speedsensor off another protege5 and mount it onto my transmission? OR do I need to swap in a whole new transmission that comes with a speedsensor originally?
tldr: I have a manual transmission model that comes without a speedsensor, that is already installed into a Protege5 that originally had a transmission WITH a speedsensor. Can I grab the speedsensor off another protege5 and mount it onto my transmission? OR do I need to swap in a whole new transmission that comes with a speedsensor originally?