I am reading conflicting answers.  Does it or does it not fit on the 2.1L
engine.  If it does, it is obvious that one has to change the shifting mech.
too.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrington, Tom" <TCarrington@RELITECH.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: tranny from 81 aircooled @ 86 watercooled ?

> The linkages are different back on the transmission, so you would need to
> swap that from the donor as well. Otherwise it should bolt right up.
>
> TomC
> tcarrington@relitech.com
> http://www.relitech.com/tomc
> http://volksweb.relitech.com
> 85 Vanagon Crew Cab
> 82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
> 81 Checker A-11 (Taxi)
> 65 Notchback
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Pabst [SMTP:MikePabst@AOL.COM]
> > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 3:21 PM
> > To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject:      tranny from 81 aircooled @ 86 watercooled ?
> >
> > Anybody tried that already ? Does it fit ?
> > TIA,
> > Michael
> > 80 Westy
> > 86 GL AT
> > 81 camper 4spd = organ donor