Check the nose cone and also make sure the dimple is in the shaft for the Type3, they go in from the bottom, most late boxes have a top and bottom hole.
it's not a stupid question, an L-Bug is the curved windscreen superbug from 73 to 75 I think, & the gearbox is a single sideplate box with a higher final drive.
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Jak
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hahaha. i jsut did this recently. mine is a 72, and was poping out of fourth. got a free lbug box of my mate, saint.
thought this would be simple, and in the end it was. but yes you do have to change the nose cone. not hard. just make sure it is in neutral and you slip the dog leg in nice and smooth. i undid the axles of the lbug and just attached the axles from neville as the box went in. the only problem i had was that the flywheel was touching the top of the housing of the box. so it wouldnt go on all the way. in the end, i ended up gringng a bit out of the bellhousing all round the top. everything slipped in, and now neville goes like the wind.
gotta love those lbug boxes.
yeah i know, no one understands, but i did. and it took alot of checking and double checking and fitting and cursing b4 it worked. remember though this was my first so i dont know what happened. bu tit all works now.
the dimple... didnt htat get changed automatically when i changed the nose cone?
