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I thought about this & came to the same conclusion after I did my conversion. I am concerned the clutch cable may pull loose - I had another idea that I thought might help to transfer the load to the bulkhead ( I must still try it) as follows: Make up a short tube that fits over the clutch cable tube & is just long enough so that the end of the flexible cable lands on the top of the tube. Braze or weld a big washer on end of the tube. Slip this over the end of the clutch cable tube before you fit the flexible cable. What it then should do is transfer the load directly from the flexible cable into the bulkhead. Ian -----Original Message----- From: Jim Adney [mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org] Sent: 04 October 2004 01:17 To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: Re: [T3] matt and Dave's Notch update On 2 Oct 2004 at 21:03, David Sanderson wrote: > We have completed the conversion of the automatic transmission pan to > a manual transmission pan. > > http://www.hkin.educ.ubc.ca/sanderson/Personal/AT_to_MT/AT_to_MT.html I suggest that you may want to beef up the weld of the clutch cable tube to the rear bulkhead, where it exits the tunnel. That's a fairly common weak point where all the cable tension comes to roost, and if that weld breaks you lose your clutch. It may be helpful to slip a nicely-fitting washer over the tube and up against the bulkhead and then weld the tube to the washer and the washer to the bulkhead. That will help make this connection as strong as possible. Otherwise this looks really nice. ;-) -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~