<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Well, I got the transmission today. It is an EM case which means 3.91 gearing.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>While I am here at home I decided to pull the output shafts off to see if the type 3 are the same spline count. To my surprise they slid right in...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida
Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>NOw I am in a debate with myself. Part of me wants to run it with the 3.91 gears and see what happens to performance, mileage and temperature.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The other side of me wants to throw in the other differential and play it safe........but safe
is not fun.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I will think it over the rest of my work day and make a decision this evening. Regardless I will have to replace some seals in the new case before I do anything. We will see.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thoughts?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Adam</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, January 4, 2014 4:25 PM, Jim Adney
<jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Adam,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I've checked and it appears that I have complete final drive gasket <br clear="none">sets (doesn't include the output shaft seals) for $20 as well as just <br clear="none">the paper gasket between the final drive and the AT for $10. Shipping <br clear="none">would be on top of that.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I have a mix of gaskets however, and since I've never been this far <br clear="none">into an AT, I'm not completely sure I'm looking at the right part. I <br clear="none">have gaskets that are about ~7.25" OD and very similar ones that are <br clear="none">~8" OD. I suspect the smaller ones are the Type 3 ones, but measure <br clear="none">what you have and let me know so we can be sure.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The final drive gasket sets include a couple of large paper gaskets, <br clear="none">2 small paper
gaskets for the '69 ATs with the final drive covers, an <br clear="none">O-ring for the governor cover and another much larger O-ring that I'm <br clear="none">not sure where it goes.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I also have complete AT gasket sets for $55. These have LOTs of <br clear="none">little bits and pieces, but do not include any of the <br clear="none">metal-with-rubber-lip shaft seals. They DO include all the simple <br clear="none">rubber piston seals.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The output shaft oil seals should be something you can find locally, <br clear="none">since they were probably used in lots of VWs from that era.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Let me know what you'd like to do.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">*******************************<br clear="none">Jim Adney, <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org" href="mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org">jadney@vwtype3.org</a><br clear="none">Madison,
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