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On 7 Oct 2003 at 23:10, Stephen Curvey wrote: > I am new to this mailing list and would like to introduce > myself. I just bought a 69 fastback today and hope to give > and receive valuable information here. Welcome to the type 3 list. There are a lot of us here with 69 ATs. > and, is it feasable to just remove the auto tranny and > convert it to a standard 4 speed now before I get started > working on this car? I realize you'd have to arrange for the > extra pedal and cable. Bet the car doesn't have the clutch > cable line and bowden tube on it does it? The lack of a clutch cable tube seems to be a show stopper here. I'm sure that someone has managed to make this conversion, but it would be very hard. I'm not sure, but for 69 the rear subframe might also be different, so you might also have to exchange that. The AT tends to be quite reliable, so I recommend that you try to get along with it for awhile before you decide to change anything. One thing to be aware of is that there are 2 different oil chambers in the AT. There's a dipstick for the ATF, but the differential gets GL-5 gear lube which can only be checked and filled from below. Check it now. They often get low because they never get checked. It takes a 17mm Allen wrench to do this. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org