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On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:43, Jim Adney wrote: > On 11 May 2003 at 12:11, MattCrunk@aol.com wrote: > > > Converting a 68 to AT will be a big undertaking. I'd actually suggest that it > would be much less work to just teach your wife to drive a stick. To convert > the 68 to AT you would, at the very least, have to swap the rear subframe > w/brakes, modify the bottom of the pan, weld in the rear engine hangers, modify > the engine case and convert the flywheel to drive plate (or use the AT engine,) > and modify the top of the tunnel where the shift lever goes. If the donor car > has a good pan, it might be easier to just use it, and put your rust free 68 > body on it, but you'd still need to weld the rear mount supports to the 68 > body. > > Nothing here is straightforward. The major problems are that there were no ATs > sold in the US in 68 (and very few worldwide), the 68 MTs were swing axle, > while all the ATs were IRS. > DUH, Jim, just smack me. In my reply, I didn't even notice that he said it was a '68. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org