

| Subject: | Re: overdrive 67 bus- possible? |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Apr 94 11:27:48 CDT |
Markus, >just got my 67 camper on the road and it tweeks pretty bad at 55 miles per hour >... i was wondering if i can stick an overdrive gear or later tranny into the >bus so that i can go a little faster on the highway??? has anyone done this??? >since i will drive the bus from ohio all the way to new Foundland and back down >to south carolina this summer i would really like to be able to go faster! >any help would be appreciated. >thanks in advance I think the Bus Boys sell a late tranny conversion that eliminates the reduction boxes, which effectively raises you ratios considerably, but you better have a motor capable of delivering the horses necessary to pull that much weight! If you're running a stock 1600, I doubt if you'd get more than 20-30000 miles on a *good* rebuild, and less if *I* rebuilt it! :-) VW engineers may have been a lot of things, but they weren't patently stupid (most of the time) Peace, -- John Kuthe, aka jwk1@cec.wustl.edu, St. Louis, MO. First Job of Government: Protect people from govermment. Second Job of Government: Protect people each other It must *never* be the job of government to protect people from themselves. #insert <stddisclaimer.h> (stolen without permission from someone)
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