Hey, Is anyone in the Stafford area willing to let me crawl under their manual late bay so I can see what cable tubes I'm missing and where they should go!?!?!? I'm converting my 76 auto to a manual 6 rib (engine and tranny are already out), the clutch pedal mounting is there and i've got that fitted, I've yet to put the shift rod in but that looks straight-froward, however it looks like I'm missing at least one tube on the chassis for the clutch cable and possibly another for the throttle cable. It seems odd given that the clutch pedal mounting is there as i'd half-assumed that the chassis would be the same, but maybe in their wisdom VW spot welded these tubes later on in the chassis assembly line. I know/think that the cable should exit a metal tube on the rear axle and then go into the short flexible guide that mounts on the gearbox sideplate but I don't have specifics or anything to compare mine to. Any help would be much appreciated even if its in the form of advice or photos or measurements etc! Cheers, Deano.
I actually did this I had a 73 auto and changed mine to manual the accelerator cable is there online small thin 1 and I just bought some 10mm cancel from local steel place and ran the cable down and kind of made it got allso made a brackets iv got a step by step guide on my resto thread I'll tag u in it in a second but parts required -The long tube down the middle (auto one is shorter due to cable) -front chassis mount for front of gear rods to be supported (chassis cut needed) -few metres of 10 mm steel cable -some kind of bracket to be fitted on bottom of beam -clutch cable and pedal I'm only in droitwich allso if u want come see
@Lurcie pointed out this site, it also got good section on routing tubes. http://www.specialpatrolgroup.co.uk/spooky/conduits/conduits.html
With it being a 76, the accelerator tube is there, it's just in the wrong place for a manual... The later autos with the mechanical kick down have the accelerator cable running to the rhs just near the torsion tube
It was on an early, but coincidentally I've just installed the clutch and throttle conduit on my own. Bit of an unpleasant job, to be honest, but if you're doing this conversion you know what you're in for. I used 1/2" OD mild steel, with a wall thickness of 16SWG. Tough stuff but appears to perform admirably. I've still to trim the throttle conduit and fit the flexy tube between conduit and fan shroud, but by the time I got to that point my head was all bashed in and I was peeved so I left it a bit long and made my own combo flexy/fan shroud tube out of a bit of old brake tube! Works a treat. The tube cost £8 for a 6m length from memory, which was long enough to cut in half and use for both. Spooky's conduit routing photos are pretty much as good as you need, too. Takes tome figuring out, just spend five minutes staring at the photos lying on the floor. Best of luck to ya- let me know if you get stuck. edit- one more piece of advice. Make the bends as sweeping and gentle as possible. It's SO easy to get a cable end stuck in there, especially on the clutch cable as it's so long.I actually had the cable in the tube as I bent it, and pulled it every now and then to make sure it went through smoothly. Bending was performed between hands, bricks, and a jack.
i'm not far from you, if you're thinking of selling the auto box and it's a good one i'd appreciate a thought my way. cheers.
Mines a late 72 and I had the tube in the right place as have the tube ontop of the cab floor and down through !! Could he not just change to that throttle linkage Paul ??
