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Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:39 pm

new to glass buggy, I picked up a buggy last month the doner beetle is 1962. could not shift down to 1st or 2nd so I bought a new cupler and atemted to replace it, i noticed the cover in the pane was sheet mettle that somone bent and shaped to fit (made a hump out of it) the cupler is an old style and it stuck up above the pan, somone noched the tunell so that the trans nose cone will fit,

my question is could this be a differnt trans, than a 62 or could it have the wrong trans mounts that causes the transmisition to be higher in tunnell

thanks in advanced for any help

Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:34 pm

Something is not right...... 62 pan with "standard" swing axle trans should be totally inside tunnel.... Could be somebody has worked over trans mounts or changed to bus or some other trans...

Pictures would help....

Dale

Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:52 pm

i had the same problem. the pan on my buggy is a early 60 and the tranny is later. the nosecone had to be changed

Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:18 am

I will try to get some good pics tonight

Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:20 pm

I have some pics but I can not figur out how to post the pics

if somone can help me i can email it or some other way[/code]

Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:26 pm

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6

Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:57 pm

Thanks for the help with the pics

heres what it looks like [/img]

Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:58 pm

they cut part of the tunnell as you see in the first pic

Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:03 pm

IF your chassis is truley a 62, you have a "bastardised" front mount on chassis.... It has nosecone pushed up to high...

This is trans mount (for chassis) you need...

http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VWC-113-701-173

Dale

Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:25 pm

so you telling me that i need to cot the mount off and weld this one on? is there any thing that I can do like replace the nose cone? or bolt on?

Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:09 pm

dirtydeedss wrote: i had the same problem. the pan on my buggy is a early 60 and the tranny is later. the nosecone had to be changed

I had a bus trans in a 59 chassis. I had to change my cone.
John figured it out fo me =D> .
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2402023&highlight=#2402023

Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:00 am

is it posable to change the nose cone and i will be in good buesness? or am i going to have to weld a new mount? im not a good welder

Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:13 am

GetPsycho wrote: dirtydeedss wrote: i had the same problem. the pan on my buggy is a early 60 and the tranny is later. the nosecone had to be changed

I had a bus trans in a 59 chassis. I had to change my cone.
John figured it out fo me =D> .
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2402023&highlight=#2402023

I just had to change the con and the hokckey stick.