My last project of fitting the Ford Mondeo st220 into my Caravelle thread was a real good story board so thought id start another re the autobox failure and what ive decided to do about it
Here's the engine fitment thread...
viewtopic.php?t=178862&sid=52f549f91b75 ... 374a2c4b82
So anyways, after i fitted the engine it was incredible to drive and the box didnt like it, it would shift up then get to third and drop back again to second. Lots of adjustments followed but i came to accept the box was faulty and would need replacing or repairing.
The history goes like this:
- Bought the van, been stood 2 years with a starting problem
- Sorted the engine out, Steve at Flat4Mania got it going, even passed the MOT emissions test! My tester was well impressed with it
- 2 days later it sounded tappety (90k VEGE engine and autobox - have receipt) and out came the engine to rebuild, no main bearings available so after a 5 month search gave in and reused what i had, luckily it came with a spare short motor so had a choice.
- Sorted and driving again, big whine from the autobox while driving, pulled it out and took it my gearbox guy that stripped it and identified a very worn ring gear, unobtainable at reasonable money, USA has some but payment method made me nervy
- Sourced a good used box from Nick Tune, top bloke, proper saved me as nearly scrapped the van, took 6 months to find one
- Box always had a jerky reverse but for 2k miles a year i wasnt bothered and drove around a good bit until i decided i wanted more power
- See my other thread for what happened next in the link above
So anyways as it now wont do third or Reverse gears i believe the forward drive to be broken, cant get parts here in the UKso considered buying in from the states, good threads on The Samba for rebuilding these plus ive bought a VW manual but no one will sell me parts to repair, so back to the drawing board. Could always order a box i suppose...
Then i saw a 924 autobox and its the same as the vw one, as fitted to all sorts of vehicles from that time, audi 100/200 Turbo being the most relevant to myself, even Fiat used it.
But its not a straight swap as the internals differ, where the autobox input driveshaft fits to the differential output shaft, typical vw. So bought one as decided to do a flip box conversion on it ala Tim at Ultimate Engineering does for other vw/Audi stuff.
Only real problem i have to figure is the oil breathers on top, one for each section, will need closing and/or rerouting. The rest is pretty normal as per this conversion, drive shaft angle may be an issue though.
Essentially im rotating the differential section and putting the autobox back onto it
anyone else looked at or done this before??