Yes, all Vanagon 091 trannys use the early style shift linkage.
All 091/1 use the newer style as do 094 - 5 speed and Syncro variants.
The 2 linkage setups are quite different in several ways, I won't go
into this now.

The diesel Vanagons sold in North America came with 3 different trannys.

DZ 091 4 speed with 5.83 r+p (mostly 82 Westys)
DM 091 4 speed with 5.43 r+p (mostly 82 passenger)
DX 094 5 speed with 5.43 r+p (83 models)

Mark

Maynard Southard wrote:
>
> I'm a little confused too, but I'm trying to make sense out of this.
>
> >From Tom's site (http://volksweb.relitech.com/helmut/GEARBOX.HTM), I
> noticed that the US air-cooled tranny (DK) and the earliest diesel
> tranny (DM) are both type "091".  I have an air-cooled DK tranny on the
> floor of my garage and the shifter linkage attaches to it, in what
> appears to be, the same "forward" location as the tranny in my 82 Westy
> Diesel.  I cannot read the code on the '82 Westy D.
>
> My '86 Diesel DoubleCab (European model) has an ACP tranny (I have read
> it).  It's shift linkage attachment is different from my '82-D and is
> located more to the center, as Jim describes below.  Tom's chart says
> that this ACP tranny is type "091/1".
>
> My question: Do all "091" trannies use the forward shifter linkage
> connection and the "091/1" trannies use the center linkage?
>
> If so, then can I assume that my '82-D has the DM tranny, since it has
> the forward location on the shift linkage?
>
> If, instead, my '82-D had the DY diesel tranny, which Tom's chart shows
> to be type "091/1", then wouldn't it have the same shift linkage set-up
> as my '86 D-DoubleCab?
>
> Maybe this explains why john's friend was able to install the '86 gas
> tranny into his diesel->I4 gas conversion: if he had a "later" model
> Diesel Vanagon with the DY tranny then the shifter linkage was the
> same.
>
> Am I totally off base?  Daryl, are you out there?
>
> Maynard