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On 20 Apr 99, at 22:02, Quicksteps@aol.com wrote: > do you think it would be worth it try and > fix the car that has been wrecked? i am more interested in the finished > product than the cost. how much work is required to convert the car to > manual? would there be much more work than just installing the manual > transmission from the other car? have any of you had experience with similar > situations where everything that is good about one car is bad on the other > and vice versa. Rust is always the hardest thing to fix. Any time you can start out with a car that is significantly less rusty that i’’š5 ahead. Switching an AT car to MT is hard. In my opinion, the hardest part is the lack of the tube to run the clutch cable through, but Dave Hall in the UK has reported that the UK AT cars have this tube in there. While none of the cars that I have looked at carefully in the US had this tube, perhaps yours is the exception. If so, then you are lucky and the switch should be pretty straightforward. You may need to swap rear subframes, too, but still this is just a bolt in part. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org