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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 21:33, Jim Adney wrote: > On 9 Jul 2003 at 20:46, Russ wolfe wrote: > > > If you look at the parts books, I think you will find that the part > > numbers for "automatic only" parts begin with 003, ie 003 323 157D = > > 1.5mm thick circlip for the forward clutch. > > How about parts like 021 and 022 parts? When did these start and why did VW > stray away from the earlier system where the first three digits indicated the > model of car it was first used on? > > Are there other part number series which begine with 0 or 00 and what are they? > > I've always disliked this. It seemed pointless and confusing. > 1968 was the first year that VW used the automatic. They needed to differentiate between the 2 models. And they were possibly running out of part numbers for trans parts. By going with the 003 numbers, they could just about start over. Also, this was about the time that they would have been starting to design the water cooled cars. And that is when their part numbering system went ot hell. As for the 021 and 022 numbers, I don't have my parts book here on this machine, but I think those are late model T-2 part numbers. -- 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