Alpine gears

[crowlejo]

Does anyone know where to find alpine gears? I've been searching classifieds for a long time and cannot find them anywhere. I recently posted an ad, and nothing...Is there somebody out there that reproduces them?

[Lionhart94010]

If you want to find something that rare; IMO you would have to look in places they were sold more often, I have seen T2 mountain tranys in Split and Bays on e-bay Europe, but most often they were still in the bus ;0)

www.ebay.ch (eBay Switzerland)

www.ebay.de (eBay Germany)

FYI I have bought some rare items directly from eBay, Germany, England, Greece etc… biggest problem is sending money if they do not take PayPal and the shipping cost…
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http://bobhooversblog.blogspot.com/ - www.aircooled.net/gnrlsite/resource/articles.htm

[Stocknazi]

Why are you wanting mountain gears in FL?

Not trying to be a smartass, just curious.
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[crowlejo]

I have a place in West Arkansas that I have one of my busses at. It gets really crappy driving around in the mountains. I had alpine gears in a previous bus that could handle the terrain a lot better. I didn't realize what I was giving up when I sold it.

[mandraks]

search for schweizer armee bus, berg getriebe, there were a ton of those, and everybody who bought one, installed a regular tranny and RGBs for use on the autobahn. there has to be a ton of those
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[Eric&Barb]

Have you tried directly contacting transaxle rebuild shops???
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[Lionhart94010]

If ground clearance is not an issue; perhaps you could find the shortest sidewall for a 14” rim, most tier specs have their circumference… and get some gearing reduction that way… probably not too hard to calculated the max possible reduction using tiers and compare to Alpine Trany…
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Current VWs 71 T2 Westy SO-72/6(Miami), 71 Crew Cab, 2015 GSW TDI
Other owned VW’s 59, 68 1500s, 69 & 71 Bug’s; 72 & 73 S-Bug’s; 67 Westy, 67 Deluxe, Other 71 DC, 72 KG GT that now lives in Australia, 12 JSW TDI, 2015 GSW TDI, 2023 Tiguan
VW technical information sights
thesamba - www.ratwell.com - www.shoptalkforums.com/ - www.vw-resource.com - http://www.type2.com/
http://bobhooversblog.blogspot.com/ - www.aircooled.net/gnrlsite/resource/articles.htm

[55samba]

Another thought is a 4.86 or 5.14 ring and pinion. But as someone above said, I would call Rancho and some other trans builders to see if they have any core mountain ratio reduction boxes. Most people wont want them so you might get lucky.

[crowlejo]

Yeah I already talked to Rancho. This post was kind of a last ditch effort. I don't know much about transmissions. I've rebuilt reduction boxes though and I figured that this would be the easiest way. I'll just keep searching I guess. Thanks!