I think that the transmission would fit, lengthwise, in a Bug frame, because the Type 3 used the same manual tranny as a Bug, with a different rear mount. The later Type 3 cars had mounting similar to later buses - the engine was mounted at the rear and the trans at the front. I seem to remember that the IRS Type 3 cars also had mounts at the top of the bell housing.
So, I would expect the trans would "fit", but you would have to fabricate mounts for the rear of the frame horns, and possibly the frame horns would need to be modified to clear the oil pan on the transmission. The distance from the nose of the tranny to the axes would still be the same as a Bug. The front mount might well be different, too. I never pulled the trans out of an automatic Type 3 - does the shift cable run down the tunnel to the front of the trans, or to a lever on the side like most automatics? The way the valve body in most automatics is arranged, I would expect the latter. An automatic from a late bay window bus might also have the same nose to axle dimension... Chuck Kuecker On 10/16/2010 11:28 PM, No Quarter wrote: > I was thinking back to a few years ago when a local fella brought a VW Trike > over to show me his new acquisition. He kept telling me it was an automatic > and I figured it was a semi-automatic. Well, as it turned out, it reallly > was an automatic transmission and the trike was made for a handicapped guy > who couldn't operate a clutch. As it turns out, it used a 1500sp hooked to a > fully automatic transmission which would have been or a Type 3. > > What I was wondering is if anyone has ever managed to put a fully automatic > transmission from a Type 3 in a Beetle? Since I believe the tranny was > shifted via cable, fabricating a shifting mechanism wouldn't be hard at all. > Then I would suppose there would be some axle length adjustments, etc. I > think this would make a neat conversion. _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
