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73Dailybajabug
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:02 pm Post subject: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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I know plumbing, cooling and exhaust work is necessary. I don’t mind removing my fenders and rear apron. I just want to know if it can bolt on and spin the beetle transaxle |
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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You'll have to add a pilot bearing in the flywheel, the beetle input shaft is too short to reach the one in the end of the crank.
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73Dailybajabug
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| You'll have to add a pilot bearing in the flywheel, the beetle input shaft is too short to reach the one in the end of the crank. |
Is that it? I have 2 extra pilot bearings for the original engine I accidentally ordered. Will those fit? |
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67rustavenger
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:03 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| 73Dailybajabug wrote: |
| busdaddy wrote: |
| You'll have to add a pilot bearing in the flywheel, the beetle input shaft is too short to reach the one in the end of the crank. |
Is that it? I have 2 extra pilot bearings for the original engine I accidentally ordered. Will those fit? |
Dude, I already explained much of what you need to install that T4 engine in your 73, on reddit a little while ago.
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73Dailybajabug
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| 67rustavenger wrote: |
| 73Dailybajabug wrote: |
| busdaddy wrote: |
| You'll have to add a pilot bearing in the flywheel, the beetle input shaft is too short to reach the one in the end of the crank. |
Is that it? I have 2 extra pilot bearings for the original engine I accidentally ordered. Will those fit? |
Dude, I already explained much of what you need to install that T4 engine in your 73, on reddit a little while ago. |
Ive just posted them now and my reddit post barely got any useful advice (typical). What are you even talking about |
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67rustavenger
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:11 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| 73Dailybajabug wrote: |
| 67rustavenger wrote: |
| 73Dailybajabug wrote: |
| busdaddy wrote: |
| You'll have to add a pilot bearing in the flywheel, the beetle input shaft is too short to reach the one in the end of the crank. |
Is that it? I have 2 extra pilot bearings for the original engine I accidentally ordered. Will those fit? |
Dude, I already explained much of what you need to install that T4 engine in your 73, on reddit a little while ago. |
Ive just posted them now and my reddit post barely got any useful advice (typical). What are you even talking about |
Go back to reddit and look at the post from 67RA, that's me.
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busdaddy
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Location: Surrey B.C. Canada, but thinking of Ukraine
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| 73Dailybajabug wrote: |
| busdaddy wrote: |
| You'll have to add a pilot bearing in the flywheel, the beetle input shaft is too short to reach the one in the end of the crank. |
Is that it? I have 2 extra pilot bearings for the original engine I accidentally ordered. Will those fit? |
No, the shaft will still be 12mm too short, either press a custom bearing into the flywheel, or install a type 4 input shaft in the transmission (not sure if bus shafts fit in beetle trans')
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73Dailybajabug
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| 67rustavenger wrote: |
| 73Dailybajabug wrote: |
| 67rustavenger wrote: |
| 73Dailybajabug wrote: |
| busdaddy wrote: |
| You'll have to add a pilot bearing in the flywheel, the beetle input shaft is too short to reach the one in the end of the crank. |
Is that it? I have 2 extra pilot bearings for the original engine I accidentally ordered. Will those fit? |
Dude, I already explained much of what you need to install that T4 engine in your 73, on reddit a little while ago. |
Ive just posted them now and my reddit post barely got any useful advice (typical). What are you even talking about |
Go back to reddit and look at the post from 67RA, that's me. |
Bro you dropped the most useless “advice” that ive already figured out myself. Why are you coming here to try and sabotage my post??? I just want a proper concise answer from someone who may have done this before.
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runamoc 
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
Don't know, did this come out of an automatic vehicle?
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73Dailybajabug
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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| Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
Don't know, did this come out of an automatic vehicle? |
No info at all apart from that picture. Seller doesn’t know anything about it, probably husband’s |
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67rustavenger
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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Wow! What a complete asshole you are!
And I mean that in the kindest of terms, I can come up with.
You are a very angered person that needs help. Seek it!
Help may cure that asshole attitude that you display here and in r/beetle.
Welcome to my ignore list. You are the first asshole to get there after10 years here on the samba. Congratulations!
You are fucking an awesome man/boy!
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Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!
There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
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73Dailybajabug
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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Wow! What a complete asshole you are!
And I mean that in the kindest of terms I can come up with.
You are a very angered person that needs help. Seek it!
Help may cure that asshole attitude that you display here and in r/beetle.
Welcome to my ignore list. You are the first asshole to get there after10 years here on the samba. Congratulations!
You are fucking an awesome man/boy! |
Brother you straight up told me you didn’t know if it was gonna fit but was gonna cost me money (shocker!) and came in here acting like I already got my answer to the question to scare away people who were potentionally going to give me actual real help with a nice paragraph and links. You may try to be helpful but you lack common logic |
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runamoc
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:30 am Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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Don't know, did this come out of an automatic vehicle? |
No info at all apart from that picture. Seller doesn’t know anything about it, probably husband’s |
This little 'detail' could mean the difference in big money being spent just to tell if this engine is 'worth' it or just additional money being wasted on a 'boat anchor'. 
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airschooled
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:33 am Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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The people who gave advice looked at that picture and thought, "oh god this poor soul doesn't know they're about to invest time and money into an absolute boat anchor and have absolutely nothing to show for it after wasting their life on something that will never meet their expectations."
They just used different words.
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calvinater
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| Posted: Yesterday 2:42 am Post subject: Re: Picking this engine up. Will it fit and spin my 73 beetle trans |
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nextgen on here has a manual for sale on converting type4 to type one use.
try pming him.
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