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Can I use a 1600 kombi gearbox in a 1500 beetle?

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battybat Seriously Crusin Dubber

127 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#169061
just wondering - mines getting a bit crunchy going down into second, and i'm about to replace the pan, sooooo while the body is off I may as well do all the bits and bobs while i'm at it

motor is a 1600 btw

cheers

terry
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My other car is a scooter, and it's in even more bits than my beetle. One day they will both be back together.......

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#169190
NO not really. You need to have an IRS floorpan to fit a Kombi gearbox. The 1500 beetle does not have this type of floorpan................Sorry.

Unless you replace with an IRS pan ????


battybat Seriously Crusin Dubber

127 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#169334
oh well - just a thought as there's one going cheap in the buying and selling forum - I LIKE double clutching anyway!

thanks
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My other car is a scooter, and it's in even more bits than my beetle. One day they will both be back together.......

battybat Seriously Crusin Dubber

127 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#173133
just checking on VWFools site, http://vwfool.tk/ - apparently the 69 was an IRS pan, on all models

according to my documents, and the site info my chassis number is for a 69, so should be IRS

i'll find out when I take it apart I spose!
http://www.dtsband.com - Rock and Roll is NOT dead

My other car is a scooter, and it's in even more bits than my beetle. One day they will both be back together.......

*did*

0 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#173156
nah in australia cv's were later.
technically all beetles have irs, what you are referring to are cv's.
my 69 and 70 beetles both have swingarm.
look underneath, if you see two thick (about 'v' soft drink can thickness) black tubes heading out to the wheels then you have swingarm, if you see thin ones then you have cv's.

battybat Seriously Crusin Dubber

127 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#173928
yep, sure enuff, big thick black tubes - no kombi gearbox for me then!

cheers did
http://www.dtsband.com - Rock and Roll is NOT dead

My other car is a scooter, and it's in even more bits than my beetle. One day they will both be back together.......