Right. Yes. I tend to think from a KEP adaptor plate point of view. FWIW, from the POV of someone who's done this only twice, shortening the input shaft is not rocket surgery and as Mark had suggested to me a while ago, this can be done while input shaft is still mounted. here's my super old web page https://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/cuttingtheinputshaft The input shaft swap is not too hard but the process of lifting the gear up and unscrewing the input shaft was a little tricky at first. Some pics of what I did: https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/InputShaftRRDKAirCooledTransmission
On 3/23/14, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > with 82 diesel vans change to a more powerful engine. Of course the > bellhousing on the DK has to be changed to the diesel one and the input > shaft needs to be shortened or changed to the diesel part. I have done > this both ways many times. -- Neil n Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ Vanagon VAG *Gas* inline-VR Engine Swap Group: |
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