Knackered g/box due to sketchy pug engine conversion!

[marky667]

Sorry for the cross posting but I am a bit on the desperate side, only just joined but will introduce myself properly soon....

Help,

I have a bodged (but not by me) pug XUd9 1.9na diesel in an 87 van, was previously a 1.6td. long and short of it I have ended up with a screwed gearbox and broken adapter plate...any ideas?

I know I need a new g/box but the one in there is so smahed about to marry up with the crappy adapter plate I don't want to have to go through the hassel of doing the same and it is so dodgy I don't want to go back to it.

Does anyone have a pug adapter plate/gearbox? or a VW engine & gearbox combo for sale that I could put in? or any ideas as to what I could do on a very limited budget (and time frame as it is my daily driver), please don't say sell it as I have spent the last two months building an amazing interior.

Thanks in advance for your help

Mark

[Syncro G]

Can't help on parts but did your old pug engine have a suitable spigot bush in the middle of the flywheel? I've seen a couple of vehicles with engine conversions where this has been missed, clutch and gearbox suffer because of it, as will the replacements if its not sorted.

[Simon Baxter]

Not seen one personally but I have heard plenty of tales about these adapter plates not being of the highest quality and they aren't machined so the input shaft goes into the crank centrally, so they always run on the p1ss.
again, just hearsay, not from personal experience but there have been several comments from a few different folk about the quality of them.

[marky667]

This wasn't one of 'those' adapter plates, this was something someone who obviously thought he was a bit of a mechanic roughed together from a sheet of 1.5mm sheet steel.....Groooaaannn!!!