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2nd gear crunch is not a sing of impending doom. its one of those things 020 boxes do, if you put some better gear oil in it may even go away. also bear in mind that rodchange syncro boxes are plentyfull and cheep.

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6K for a drive in drive out conversion.

to fit a 225 motor, full haldex with a quaife in the frount. i don’t think you’ll find cheeper

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mines got a std 2wd mount, just never fitted the 4th bolt no problems so far

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larger engines can take more agressive cams.

i wouldn’t worry about they syncro needing more torque

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there 10mm shorter than teh rod change ones

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passat is wide track.

DH managed to get the rallye specific shaft in the UK off the shelf from a recon shop. for less money than some ebay muppet wanted for a 2nd hand one out of a crashed car

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very good for the money,

the rear wishbone bush dosent accsept the sleve that locates the bush in the subframe, but it’s done a lot of hard miles since then and it seems ok, mk3’s don’t seem to have said sleive anyway.

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just realised there the people that i got my wishbone bushes from

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i’m intrested

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tyer pressure are on inside of petrol flap, tyer pressures are inportant for same reasons as any other car, windup in the transmition from tyer pressures is not an issue i’m aware of

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can you email me some piccys of the rallye rear beam and trailing arms, and some more details on the JNL head

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maged to get it started but it dosen’t seem very keen on the idea of running well enough to drive it at the moment, fromt he sound of it atm i may have worn all the usefullness out of the motor, i’ll try some diffrent HT leads and plugs as i’m sure ive got some kicking around somewhere and giev the webber a couple of clouts and see if that makes any differance

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got an spares syncro that chould be experimented on, 5th has given up so it dosent matter if the rest of the box goes bang problem is been gu powerd its only going to powerslide on wet grass

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rwd conversions have been done.

get a VW-ford adaptor bellhouseing. as used on kit cars. take a ford type 8 or mt75 box bolt 20vt to it. butcher subframe and driveshafts to take a bwm diff. cut and weld tunnel and floor to make room for gearbox

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older landrovers discoverys were sods for it, if you put the difflock in and the surace wasent slippy enough they’d wind up then good luck getting it back out

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