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Rear Axle and Transmission

(cxcept Sfandord Model)

Transmission

The four forward geors are synchronized. The helicolly cut gcars ore in constan! mesh and opcralc silenłly.

The design of the transmission i$ the same os the one which has becn instollcd in the VW Transporter sińce May 1959. The mog-nesium die cast transmission is a one-piece construction. The drive pinion carries the sychronizing unils for the lst and 2nd gear, the main drive shoft the units for the 3rd and 4th gears. The rotios havc been adopted to suit the incrcascd engine performonce.

Number of tceth and gear ratios

	1960		1961
	tceth	ratio	teeth	ratio
lst gear	1036	3.60	10 38	3.80
2nd gear	17/33	1.94	17,35	2.06
3rd geor	23 28	1.22	22 29	1.32
4th gear	28 23	0.82	27/24	0.89
Reverse	10/36*)	4.63	14/44')	3.88

'I Reverse geor

Number of teelh on main drive shoft 1960: 18, 1961: 21 Number of łeelh on drivc pinion 1960: 14, 1961: 17

Number of teeth and finał drivc ratio

	1960	1961
Drive pinion	7	8
Ring gear	31	35
Ratio	4.43	4.375

Ovcrall ratio

1960		1961
lst gear	15.94	16.63
2nd gear	8.60	9.01
3rd gear	5.39	5.77
4th gear	3.64	3.89
Reverse	20.50	16.99