Thanks for the comments everyone - Ray, Bert, and Mike. When doing a RHD conversion on a manual transmission vehicle with a hump in the middle, you just about have to get all the controls over on the right hand side. I have an old Baja bug that has a bus trans in it that I'm thinking of using. It's got big chevy mud tires on it and I stopped working on it when I found that the rear control arm had been bent. I didn't feel like taking everything apart and so there it sits, but with extra motiviation, I have a replacement set that I could put on.
I'm going to ask the postmaster today about what they would suggest or like me to drive. They want something that looks decent I think and that could be rather relative. RHD vehicles make the job 10 times easier and I'd love to do the route in a Baja. It would be really fun. It's a bit too much to think about reaching over and steering, shifting, and juggling the mail all at the same time. The simpler the vehicle, the more reliable and fun it would be. Really if I do the pedals and brakes (keeping in mind the spacers!), then doing a steering box, minor wiring, and a dash reweld wouldn't be too much more work. At class yesterday, they said rear wheel drive vehicles are the worst on the roads, but I don't think they were thinking of the beetle which according to an old postal worker, was the best postal vehicle he ever used. Even if you go through clutches, replacing them and the pressure plate isn't that big of a job. We'll see where this all leads. TTYL and thanks for the words! NQ _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
