This kind of video makes me feel happy about the internet. I just pulled my transaxle off of my 1973 bay this week and shipped it off to the folks at the repair shop. I am currently rebuilding my engine, but my eventual goal is to do an ev conversion like yours. I really appreciate your attention to detail about the differences in transaxels between different years. I absolutely love the amount of detail you give in your videos- youhave answered so many questions I had when pulling my transaxle just by going through everything step by step! Love your videos, keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope all goes well with your transaxle rebuild. If you end up doing an ev conversion like mine, you already have the best year transaxle for it. Thanks for watching!
Lots of great info on transmissions there. One thing that would have been good to cover is the alignment and install of motor to transmission. The vid seems to jump from transmission only, then next thing we have the motor attached. Any misalignment there will put pressure on the coupler. So are you happy it’s perfectly aligned? On some conversion videos I’ve seen people hang the transmission vertically above the motor and run gently to make sure they self centre properly, then bolted down tight and installed as a single unit. That’s a step I want to avoid if possible when I do mine, but I can see the sense in it. Might be more required with heavier motors maybe. Mine for example will be a Nissan Leaf motor. Thanks for making the videos though, good food for thought.
I just couldn't get any good footage of the installation because of how tight the space is. And it was quite boring and meticulous. I just installed similar to how you would install the VW engine - by jacking it up from the bottom on my modified jack board. For my last conversion, the Spitfire, I joined the engine to the transmission beforehand and installed as one piece with a hoist from the top. Since VW engines go in from underneath, I just decided to do one piece at a time. I was careful to get everything aligned so as not to stress anything. I'm sure suspending the components to join them would be ideal, but geesh, if the clutch and coupler were that fragile, they probably shouldn't be in your motor 😀. Anyway, like anything else, I will just have to thoroughly test it before I actually start driving it. More to come. Thanks for watching Ian!
This kind of video makes me feel happy about the internet. I just pulled my transaxle off of my 1973 bay this week and shipped it off to the folks at the repair shop. I am currently rebuilding my engine, but my eventual goal is to do an ev conversion like yours. I really appreciate your attention to detail about the differences in transaxels between different years. I absolutely love the amount of detail you give in your videos- youhave answered so many questions I had when pulling my transaxle just by going through everything step by step! Love your videos, keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope all goes well with your transaxle rebuild. If you end up doing an ev conversion like mine, you already have the best year transaxle for it. Thanks for watching!
congrats! first wheel spin!
Thanks!!
Great video Scotty ! Very interesting stuff. I have learned something about my own transmission also
Thanks! Yes, I was forced to learn a lot about Bay window bus transmissions during the course of this process.
Hi Scotty, A great update of Electro conversion,👍🏻🛠progress progres👏 so looking forward for the first drive tes🙏🏻🍀🇺🇸.Greetings.Hubertus🇳🇱🇳🇴☮🙏🏻🇺🇸🍀
Thanks, I am looking forward to the first drive too. Take care!
Lots of great info on transmissions there.
One thing that would have been good to cover is the alignment and install of motor to transmission. The vid seems to jump from transmission only, then next thing we have the motor attached.
Any misalignment there will put pressure on the coupler. So are you happy it’s perfectly aligned?
On some conversion videos I’ve seen people hang the transmission vertically above the motor and run gently to make sure they self centre properly, then bolted down tight and installed as a single unit.
That’s a step I want to avoid if possible when I do mine, but I can see the sense in it.
Might be more required with heavier motors maybe. Mine for example will be a Nissan Leaf motor.
Thanks for making the videos though, good food for thought.
I just couldn't get any good footage of the installation because of how tight the space is. And it was quite boring and meticulous. I just installed similar to how you would install the VW engine - by jacking it up from the bottom on my modified jack board. For my last conversion, the Spitfire, I joined the engine to the transmission beforehand and installed as one piece with a hoist from the top. Since VW engines go in from underneath, I just decided to do one piece at a time. I was careful to get everything aligned so as not to stress anything. I'm sure suspending the components to join them would be ideal, but geesh, if the clutch and coupler were that fragile, they probably shouldn't be in your motor 😀. Anyway, like anything else, I will just have to thoroughly test it before I actually start driving it. More to come. Thanks for watching Ian!