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txoval
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 Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:33 am Post subject: Re: Installing engine and transaxle as one unit |
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I agree and have never done it, or even thought about it.
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| An IRS beetle wouldn’t be bad…swingaxle forget about it |
It wouldn’t be bad at all.
It would be worse than bad. It would be a horrible choice to attempt that and would make absolutely no sense. |
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gtixpress
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| Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:19 am Post subject: Re: Installing engine and transaxle as one unit |
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It's actually recommended to pull it out as a unit in Type 3's with IRS, per the manual. It's just an awkward process in trying to keep it balanced.
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MarcVoss
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:04 am Post subject: Re: Installing engine and transaxle as one unit |
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It's just an awkward process in trying to keep it balanced. |
Yes, but this tool will help.
So, engine and transaxle will keep in balance.
But, of course, a second pair of hands will help during moving.
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b-man
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:26 am Post subject: Re: Installing engine and transaxle as one unit |
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On a car that’s designed to install the engine and trans as a unit it’s a no-brainer.
I balanced this Buick V6 bolted to the transaxle using a KEP adapter on a regular floor jack by simply using a piece of 2x10 wood and stuck it in there by myself. I performed this swap when I was 19 back in 1979.
At first I thought it was strange seeing there weren’t any frame horns to support the transaxle since I had never owned a VW built like that. It did make the installation of the engine and trans pretty easy, doing them together was how the job was meant to be performed.
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nsracing
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| Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:57 am Post subject: Re: Installing engine and transaxle as one unit |
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so -someone wants to do them both same time? 
I do Ford trucks like that - engine and trans same time. |
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Glenn 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Installing engine and transaxle as one unit |
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so -someone wants to do them both same time?
I do Ford trucks like that - engine and trans same time. |
So what does that have to do with VW?
Apples and bowling balls.
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