Date:         Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:50:35 -0500
Reply-To:     Benoit <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
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From:         Benoit <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Subject:      Re: Automatic to manual conversion...
Comments: To: Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <5c80974c041212091523623840@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks Sudhir.... am at home (once in a wile...)  so i don't have the
Bentley... i was sure that the 82 had a wire clutch and not a hydro
one... anyway, everything is possible... but this is not a personal
job..but a customer job, so it's all a question of  time $$$$ spent on
it, i evaluate the job at about 12 hours...

I got great new stuff comming up on:
80-84 BA6 heater, clutch, fridge repair/ignition, propane, stove.... Men
ho men am learning a lot!!!!

Cheers guys, Ben
ps.: first snow storm up here...make you want to travel south...just a
question of weeks before i go south again...

Sudhir Desai wrote:

>I helped one of my friends in NW Connecticut do it while I was up there working.
>The toughest part was routing the hydraulics and the shifter shaft.
>The part that took the smallest fingers was removing the old master
>cylinder and installing the manual one.
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>fwiw, the halfshafts will need to be changed since the auto uses
>unequal length units...and all the mounts/etc will need changed, but
>since you have a complete other van to work with, you should be good
>to go. :)
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>Sudhir.
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>On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:27:31 -0500, Benny boy <huotb@videotron.ca> wrote:
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>>I have a customer with a 82 auto. he as a complete 82 manual trany second
>>bus.... he wants to go manual!!!
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>>Any one did it? any advice? i don't see any problems!!!!!
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>>Thanks, Ben
>>http://www.benplace.com/vw2.htm
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