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Adam_C Custom Title Time!

1,180 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#95508
im assuming i took this off of my 63 but i dont remember LOL

is this a quick shift plate? how do i install it?
if not WTF is is ?

cheers
adz

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Adam
Adzslick@iprimus.com.au

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#95517
they just look like standard shifter plates Adam.
The quick shift is in TWO parts..

1st a bracket the shape of the shifter plate but about 20mm high...

2nd another ball that mounts on top of the normal shifter rod ball.

These two pieces shift the leverage so the throw is much shorter.
Lee
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#95553
Adam,
Here is a VW quickshift kit...
I had one in 1970.. still the same...
this is the only one I have ever seen...
maybe You have a different make ??
Lee

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Adam_C Custom Title Time!

1,180 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#95604
hehehe thanks lee and thanks dave, its the only room in the house bright enuff to take photos with my crappy digital camera

cheers
adz
Adam
Adzslick@iprimus.com.au