Date:         Fri, 3 Feb 1995 14:26:20 -0800
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Erik Soule"  <erik@henries.nsc.com>
Subject:      Re: '81 2.0L in '73 westy no fit?

I'd love to help you, Harmon, but my brain gets lost in your mind-wretching sig 
at the end of your note. I feel like I'm in hell, trying to count the teeth of a
spinning flywheel, with a drunk gunning the throttle for all eternity....

Erik

P.S. I've had the same Type I experience. Maybe your words of wisdom hold true 
with the Type IV's: "All is impermanent..."

In message <01HMM7MIU6JM002NB6@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu>  writes:
> I just crawled out from under my van -- the '81 2 liter I'm putting in
> it doesn't seem to fit. Oh, it goes in, the tran shaft meshes with the
> clutch splines, etc. Then when I try to tighten up the four mounting
> bolts, and it gets down to the last 1/2", something is binding. I've
> done many a transplant -- but nothing with this new an engine. What it
> reminds me of is when I tried to put a 1600cc in a 1200cc bug. The
> flywheel was just a bit too big, and you had to grind out the inside
> of the transaxle clutch housing --- is that what the problem is here?
> Does anyone know if they made the flywheel bigger between the 1700cc
> and the '81 2000cc??? I hate to pull it all out to look.
>    Or is there some other difference I'm missing? Surely someone has
> done this before. Please e-mail me as I read the list on the web.
> 
> 
> Harmon Seaver
> seaverh@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
> Date sent:  3-FEB-1995 14:55:31 
> hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu
> harmon@buffett.engr.cae.wisc.edu
> hseaver@csd.uwm.edu
> 
> All is impermanent -- but this too shall pass away, and the way of the
> Samurai is death, so speak your mind now, or forever hold your peace.
>  
> The fundamental delusion of humanity is that I am in here, and you
> are out there.


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