Identify my transmission!

topnotch · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:02 pm Post subject: Identify my transmission!

Hi,

Can anyone identify the transmission fitted to my 63 split!?

To help, the bus when found had a corvair engine fitted (which has been reversed to match the vw rotation).

It has an early release bearing and a 6v starter motor fitted.

The serial number is - 9526836

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Thanks, Mike

Eric&Barb · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:10 pm Post subject:

Well it is a tunnel case transaxle with 1965-67 RGB axles. Beyond that is moot do to all the years and DPOs. Who knows how many times rebuilt and if properly rebuilt or even geared.

At best you could try turning the input shaft and counting RPMs at the drums to see what gearing you have, and then do the math.
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mandraks · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:17 pm Post subject:

topnotch · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:06 pm Post subject:

thanks - not sure what a tunnel case is?

Do you its definitely a bus box ?

thanks, mike

Eric&Barb · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:55 am Post subject:

It could be a bus transaxle, or a beetle, or a K. Ghia, with bus axles attached.

Back in the 1950s and earlier the transaxle was split in half just like the engine case. In MAY59 for the bus and 1961 type 1, the transaxle was cast in pieces so the gearing is put into it from the front into a tunnel like case for a much stronger transaxle.
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mandraks · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:45 am Post subject:

Ian · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:47 am Post subject:

YELLOW PAINT PEN!!!

I bet I know where that transmission got pulled at.
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topnotch · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:50 am Post subject:

Not sure what you mean!?

Erik G · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:06 am Post subject:

junkyards typically mark their parts with yellow green or red paint pen as you go out the door. It is because they offer a limited warrenty, and the mark shows it's the same one you bought
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Ian · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:06 am Post subject:

Nobody would believe it if I told you that 99.9% of all VW Bus parts that have yellow paint pen came from one junkyard in Colorado.

I have gotten windows, seats, decklids, everything, and it always has the paint pen, even whole Buses that had the damn yellow pen all over them.

The Roman Numeral number 2 is also a dead giveaway.

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Bruce Amacker · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:06 am Post subject:

Boneyard writing on the trans to identify where it came from.....
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Erik G · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:10 am Post subject:

Sacramento, specifically Rancho Cordova, is home to a ton of very major junkyards. BMW, Porsche (pelican parts) There is a specific Jeep junkyard even. Also, PickNPull places. All of them use a paint pen just like that
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Ian · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:12 am Post subject:

Bruce Amacker · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:13 am Post subject:

I'm in Ohio, and every boneyard here uses a similar or exact paint pen (sometimes they are small bottles with a roller tip that writes the same).
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topnotch · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:02 am Post subject:

So the upshot is that it could be from a bus, beetle or ghia from the 60`s probably!

Was trying to sell it and get it identified if possible! I reckon tis probably a bus box originally as it was running reduction boxes (unless it`d had the diff flipped!)

mandraks · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:16 pm Post subject:

so it is not the hashtag #67 then?

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zozo · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:21 pm Post subject:

I'd interpret the yellow tagging to mean a 1967 type II.

EverettB · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:03 pm Post subject:

I'm guesstimating a little based on the numbers in the VIN charts on this site since the rear axle numbers don't go up to 1967 but a tranny # of 9526836 does look like it might be from 1967.
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