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Subject: [T3] 5 speed transaxle > In 1982 the type2 camper started having available a 5 speed transaxle, > (according to my book "model documentation"). Was this in the US? Is > it possible to use this trans in a type3? Or was 1st gear a really > low "granny gear". I was out of the dealers by '82, so I am not familiar with this transmission. I am pretty sure that all the ratios were different, including the final drive ratio. It has always been lower on the T-2, because of the extra weight, and wind load. I would bet that 5th is not much higher than our 4th gear overall, (when you take into consideration the final drive.) I have never heard of a bus that would run close to 100mphlike our T-3's. I owned an '82 bus, but is was a 1600cc water cooled diesel. That is not a fair comparison, as it had trouble doing 65 mph. I didn't keep it long, but I made good money on it when I got rid of it. Paid $1800 and got $4000 from the dealer when I traded it in '88 for a new Dodge Aries wagon. > I have started seriously thinking about a type4 conversion. I already > have a case and have been reading alot on Jake Raby's website and Tom > Hansen's website. I was thinking of a 5speed trans and the only > possibilities I could think of was the Berg conversion or Porsche 914 > (having to flop the final drive). The type2 5speed I know nothing > about. > Or would it just be easier to use the type4 auto trans so my wife > could drive the car? It will probably become hers anyway when I start > working on the T34. Wouldn't it be easier to teach your wife to drive a manual trans??? ^_^ Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/