Nope, auto's were invented for people who were willing to pay someone to shift gears for them.

 

I dont understand why everyone says its cheaper to trade in what you have and start over rather than swap to what you want. You loose thousands as soon as you drive off the lot. If I had a lemon Jeep I would trade it in if I could but not if I was satisfied with what I had. When I changed my JK from a manual to an auto it maybe added an hour of time at the most over just pulling a transmission for say a clutch replacement. I'm not a mechanic and I thought the swap was easy. There really is not that much stuff to change. Computer, flywheel, clutch master, pedals and console, and of course the tranny. All the bracket's are already there for either.

 

Changing from a manual to an auto is easier than from a manual to an auto.

 

Why do you say that? I mean if you have the parts I can not see anything that would make it any harder to go one way or the other.

 

I'm speaking from experience. Going Manual -> Auto, you are removing a lot more parts, and installing fewer. Going Auto -> Manual you are installing more parts.

On many automatic vehicles, the brackets for the clutch pedal & master cylinder aren't there and many times there isn't a hole through the firewall for it. You also have to run the hydraulic line to the slave cylinder for the clutch. So you have to have all the right brackets to mount it.

 

All the same way with the JK.

With the JK everything is also there for both vehicles. pull the tape off that is covering the clutch master cylinder tru hole. Twist in the clutch master and attach the hose to the brake fluid reservoir There is a shaft that slides out for the pedals. I think I paid $7. for a new bake pedal.

 

Really?? Wow! Well, if they already have everything there then it won't be nearly as much as a pain as it would have been.

 

Other than the pain to pull everthing apart I dont think it would be that big of a deal to put one or the other back in, if you have the parts. You would have to have the dealer enter your vin in the donor computer also. It would still be a pain but it could be less $ than trading in if you really wanted to switch.

 

You will be sorry you ever touched it.....

 

Just out of curiousity, have you ever personally done a JK conversion?