Date:         Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:47:00 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: convert auto trans to manual?
Comments: To: sean@ORIGINALIDIOT.COM
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If you are intent on doing this conversion contact Bryan or Tammy
Sturgeon at I-35 Foreign Auto Salvage in Alvarado TX  1-800-666-7167
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They have an 85 Waser Boxer with 90% of the parts you need.
It would be an 85 manual tranny.
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The parts I know to be missing are:
Clutch master and slave, clutch pedal arm.
I can't be sure but I think everything else is there. (Flywheel is rusty
buy can be resurfaced and used)
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Make your deal with them and let me know if I can help.
Their yard is about 70 miles from my home in Dallas but I go about twice
a month for round VDO gauges and miscellaneous other parts.
I got the whole McGilla off this van to put a Subaru  Boxer engine in an
air cooled van.
Best of luck on this ............. I prefer the manual tranny in my 83
for controlling the RPMs pulling long hills or fighting bad head winds.
If you're in a mountain area I'd say it might be worth your effort.
If you could live with the automatic out of an 81 Vanagon I've got a
source for it as well. (Bad news, I'd have to pull it and that would cost
you $100.00 in labor, its also 70 miles from Dallas.)

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:44:07 -0600 Sean Solowiej <sean@ORIGINALIDIOT.COM>
writes:
> I'm thinking of trying to put a manual trans (from air-cooled 83)
> into a 90
> Carat automatic.  (Obviously money is an issue).  Please let me know
> why
> this might be a bad/good idea.
> It seems the hardest thing I can foresee is transferring the
> shifting
> linkage and adding the hydraulic clutch pedal assembly.  Has anyone
> here
> done this?
>
> Since the clutch and brake use the same fluid reservoir, is it
> reasonable to
> assume I can add a clutch master cylinder under there?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean Solowiej
>
>

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