[T3] 66 Squareback Now Mine

[Craigs List]

Daniel,

You and I made a similar transfer.

I am in Sherman Texas, just north of Dallas after 14 years in Colorado
Springs. You are, indeed, feeling my pain.

Adam

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Daniel K. Du Vall <dduvall at 1peter4-10.org>
wrote:

> I feel your pain I just moved to North Alabama (Huntsville) From Castle
> Rock Co but did have 8 months of summer in Lawton Oklahoma to help prepare
> me but still way different. What part of North Texas did you say? I lived
> in Lindale, TX for 2 years from 2003 to 2005 loved it there.
>
> Daniel Du Vall
> http://1peter4-10.org
> http://volkswageninsanity.us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:
> type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Craigs List
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:39 PM
> To: Type 3 List
> Subject: Re: [T3] 66 Squareback Now Mine
>
> hockey stick update:
>
> I called the previous owner. He is a straight and honest guy. I asked him
> if the tranny was purpose built for a type 3? He said yes.
> I asked if he had a new nose come installed or a new hockey stick? He said
> yes, and that the transmission builder had to redrill the hockey stick.
> This tells me that it does, indeed, have a type 1 hockey stick, or he
> would not have had to redrill it. I don't know if it was an oversight on
> the builders part or what.
>
> He did tell me that the shift bushing is brand new. I am still going to
> check it, but I am sure it will be OK.
>
> Then he said, when talking further about the install, that he "had to run
> a drill through the shift rod because it was just to darn tight to get the
> pin back in. So I drilled it out a little bit to make it go back together."
> What do you guys think of this? How hard is a shift rod to replace? Could
> it be drilled to far out, coupled with the incorrect hockey stick, causing
> all of my shifting issues?
>
> What should my next step be?
>
> It was 80 degrees and 100% humidity when I got off work. I couldn't breath
> much less work on the car. It is going to take a while for this Colorado
> transplant to get used to this North Texas heat, and it isn't even as hot
> as it usually is this time of year.
>
> I am still going to mess with the shift plate a little, but I don't hold
> out hope for that being able to adjust the ill shifting out. I am thinking
> it is going to take a weekend of work and some new parts to tackle this one.
>
> Let me know what you guys think.
>
> Adam
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
>
> > On 25 May 2015 at 20:40, Craigs List wrote:
> >
> > > "If you can't get the shift lever in the right place by moving the
> > > lever base, the problem MIGHT be due to the tranny (or just the
> > > "hockey stick", being replaced by a Bug part."
> > >
> > > Can you explain this further? I will try adjusting first. I will
> > > look at the bushing too.
> >
> > The "hockey stick" is the part of the tranny that has a shaft that
> > sticks out the front of the nose cone and inside it has an arm that
> > swings around, sort of like a hockey stick, to make the shifts. On
> > Beetles, the coupling to that shaft is accessed from above, but on
> > Type 3s it's accessed from below. The shaft has dimples to accept the
> > fixing bolts from the shift rod coupler: on top for Beetles and on the
> > bottom for Type 3s.
> >
> > It's fairly common for people swapping trannys to stick in a Beetle
> > hockey stick and not notice the difference until they get around to
> > installing the shift coupler. By then it's way too late to do a neat
> > job, so they do a kludge, and drill a dimple with the tranny and
> > hockey stick in place. It's almost impossible to do this accurately.
> >
> > I would have thought that if ISP sold something they would have jigged
> > it correctly. I hadn't heard of this problem with this ISP part.
> > Wouldn't the Type 3 dimple be exactly 180 degrees from the Beetle
> > dimple? Frankly, I'm sort of surprised that VW didn't supply
> > replacements with both dimples, to make a universal replacement.
> >
> > I can probably come up with a Type 3 hockey stick if anyone needs one,
> > but note that '72 cars with vacuum adv/retard got a special one.
> > I won't have one of those.
> >
> > --
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> > Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
> > Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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