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Re: [T3] Corvair!


On 17 Dec 2004 at 20:40, Russ Wolfe wrote:

> You didn't need anything special to install a Corvair engine in a VW,
> You just flipped the ring gear to the other side of the pinion shaft.

How do you feel about the special tools to set the ring/pinion fit? Would YOU 
need those tools to do this job, or have you done enough of them that you could 
just do it by feel?

> Wanta see something funny??? Rebuild an early T-2 transaxle, and start
> to go for a road test, and find that you have 4 in reverse, and 1
> forward. I have never done it, but saw one done that way. We didn't quit
> laughing for about an hour.

;-)

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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