On 10/23/06, Kim Springer <kimspringer@rcn.com> wrote:
>
> Ben,
>
> I would think, if you knew the movements of the linkage into the
> transmission, you could find the gears and note the turn of the axles in
> each of the gears.  Look for 5 speeds vs 4 speeds and where the reverse
> gear
> position is?
>
> When I was maybe 15 years old, I had an old 1200 cc VW engine mounted to a
> 4
> speed VW tranny that was u-bolted to a pallet.  I remember turning the
> input
> shaft on the tranny (with the engine unbolted) and shifting the tranny
> with
> a pair of vice-grips on the shift shaft going into the nose cone.  You
> could
> pretty easily make out the change in RPM of the axles, especially if you
> held one of them still.
>
> Maybe the T3 trannys wouldn't be that easy to manipulate, but it's just a
> thought.
>
> Kim

Kim,

 I don't know where Jake found it, but he identified another code I
found. AGT turns out to identify it as a 5-speed with a .483 R&P.

Cheers,

BenT

ps:
I could not check shifting because I already packaged the bugger.

pps:
Let me know when you are checking out Jero's seats.