Right. Yes. I tend to think from a KEP adaptor plate point of view.

FWIW, from the POV of someone who's done this only twice, shortening
the input shaft is not rocket surgery and as Mark had suggested to me
a while ago, this can be done while input shaft is still mounted.

here's my super old web page

https://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/cuttingtheinputshaft

The input shaft swap is not too hard but the process of lifting the
gear up and unscrewing the input shaft was a little tricky at first.
Some pics of what I did:

https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/InputShaftRRDKAirCooledTransmission

On 3/23/14, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> with 82 diesel vans change to a more powerful engine. Of course the
> bellhousing on the DK has to be changed to the diesel one and the input
> shaft needs to be shortened or changed to the diesel part. I have done
> this both ways many times.

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Vanagon VAG *Gas* inline-VR Engine Swap Group:

http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej