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Sat Mar 22, 2025 7:42 pm

When you pressed on the 3-4 hub with slider, you pressed it on too far. If you measure your endplay on 3rd gear, it won't be enough. VW says 3rd gear endplay needs to be .10-.25mm.

Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:14 pm

I was always surprised how much abuse a stk swingaxle could take ,in the good old days we plain abused the hell out of those poor things in every form possible on the dirt and street and they still just kept going .
it was not until we started dropped the hammer at the track things broke .and it seamed to always be the ring and pinion as most common failure.
all the other mods in the world really did not make much difference .
when we started just slipped the hell out of the clutch before dumping it or made our own arm dampers failures dropped .

Wed Apr 16, 2025 1:41 pm

Bruce wrote: When you pressed on the 3-4 hub with slider, you pressed it on too far. If you measure your endplay on 3rd gear, it won't be enough. VW says 3rd gear endplay needs to be .10-.25mm.

Great, thanks for that. I'll check it out!

Tue May 27, 2025 5:08 pm

Is there a direct install coarse tooth synchro hub and gear sets?

Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:40 pm

bigwormskidoo wrote: Is there a direct install coarse tooth synchro hub and gear sets?

for 3rd/4th gears?

I used 002 gearsets

Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:12 am

benozoval56 wrote: bigwormskidoo wrote: Is there a direct install coarse tooth synchro hub and gear sets?

for 3rd/4th gears?

I used 002 gearsets yes 3-4 but they do have to be modified to fit? and are 002 gear fine or course tooth.

Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:46 pm

bigwormskidoo wrote: benozoval56 wrote: bigwormskidoo wrote: Is there a direct install coarse tooth synchro hub and gear sets?

for 3rd/4th gears?

I used 002 gearsets yes 3-4 but they do have to be modified to fit? and are 002 gear fine or course tooth.

Coarse tooth hence the change.

Yes I also TIG welded them