Reduction boxes

[Nathan]

I'm building my buggy off of a 67 pan. I have come across an old bus tranny with reduction boxes. I would like to switch the axles to put the boxes on my tranny. I know that the spring plates will have to be changed. Do the bus spring plates work on the bug rear torsion? And where can I get the spring plates?

I'm trying to figure out how much trouble this swap will be, thanks.

Nathan
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[1tallveedub]

If you are going to use your type 1 trans,then you will have to flip the ring gear in the trans.If you don't,you will have one forward and 4 reverses because of those boxes.

[Nathan]

Thanks for the reply. I didn't know the geometry of the tranny would have to be changed.
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[Hebster52]

Do a search.
It have been discussed many times on this forum...

I'm planning on doing the same on my split '51
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[Nathan]

I did a search and got a lot of good information but I'm still curious if the type two spring plates will mount to the type one torsion.
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