The splined arm the slave pushes against is different on a diesel also...it
is 1 spline different offset...don't even ask how I know that one from
personal experience...
Daryl of AA Transaxle
----- Original Message -----
From: "mark drillock" <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: Clutch slave bracket - diesel and boxer

> Yes, the diesel clutch slave bracket is different. So is the flat
> support arm that bolts to the side of the tranny and runs up to one of
> the slave bolts.
>
> Mark
>
> John Stepto wrote:
>
>>I am almost finished with my boxer to inline conversion and I had the
>>transmission rebuilt with diesel bell housing. I have the clutch slave
>>cylinder mounting bracket from the boxer bell housing mounted on the
>>diesel
>>bell housing and the slave cylinder is contacting the level arm correctly
>>but the mounting flange is about �� above the bracket.  Is the bracket
>>from
>>the diesel different?  I looked on the Bus Depot site and the cylinder
>>appears to be the same for all Vanagons.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks for the help,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>John Stepto
>>
>>
>