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Subject:Re: Putting a 2wd transmission into a Syncro?
From:mark drillock
Date:Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:57:13 -0700

As long as the 2wd trans is from a waterboxer van it will match up to
the Syncro engine and Syncro shift linkage. You will have some work to
do at the nose mount. Get the complete 2wd nose mount with the tranny.
I'm wondering why Scott and Ken say you can bolt the 2wd bracket into
the threaded holes in the body when some are partially blocked by welded
on brackets for the Syncro protection bars and others are totally
blocked. Some fabrication or modification will be required. Spacing down
the nose mount by 1.5" or more will help clear the above welded on
brackets and put the tranny close to the Syncro mounting angle.

Mark

Will Taygan wrote:
> Great!  So, just to confirm: the shift mechanism from the Syncro will
> work with a 2wd trans?  Remove drive shaft, yep.  Put new lock washers
> on the CV joints, yep.  I'm guessing the bellhousing is different?
> Input shaft the same?