I stand corrected. Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "mark drillock" <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: 83-85 & 86-91 Gas Manual Gear Ratios

> This is not correct. It is the aircooled 80-83 tranny that has the 4.57.
> All the waterboxers have essentially the same gearing, whether 1.9 or
> 2.1, at least in North American models. 4.83 and 4.86 were both used.
> The diesels had radically different  final drives, 5.86 and 5.43
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> In other markets there were various ratios offered.
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> Mark
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> Jake de Villiers wrote:
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> >The final drive ratio went from 4.57 on the 1.9 motor to 4.83 or 4.86,
> >depending on the version of the gearbox. Tom Carrington's page has a link
to
> >Helmut's fairly complete listing of Vanagon transaxle ratios. Good Luck,
> >Jake
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "chris" <chris@MCCLURKEN.COM>
> >To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> >Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 2:26 PM
> >Subject: 83-85 & 86-91 Gas Manual Gear Ratios
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> >>I wasn't able to quickly find this info through google. Basically, did
> >>gear ratios change at all with the 2.1 engine?
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