VW Baja Bug Installing a Bus Transmission - JBugs - Father & Son

Nathan and Sam were determined to get Nate's Baja Bug to Desert Dub's 3rd Annual Vintage Volkswagen Car Show. With that end in mind they spent the better part of two weeks rushing to get Nate's car, a 1972 Standard Beetle that had last been registered in 1992, driving again. With the goal of running a 32" or taller rear tire, a Bus transmission, with it's bigger ring and pinion being better suited for that tire, is swapped in. Typically there are a couple of ways of doing the install, a standard "bolt-in" kit that mounts the transmission to the stock mounts on the chassis, but requires cutting the body, removing the parking brake handle on the tunnel and running a shift rod and shift box on top of the tunnel. Or there is a "10 degree kit" which requires cutting the chassis, but not the body. Most importantly to Sam, it keeps the shift rod in place in the tunnel. This means less cutting of the body, a stock rear seat can be used and the car remains more sealed up.

Anyway, Sam has never been one to stick to the normal way of going about things and doesn't mind coming at things from a different angle. So he decided to modify the EMPI kit and the chassis and modified it and the chassis and came up with his own "7 degree kit". Along the way, you'll see him make his own tool since he couldn't find one, a friend stops by and at the end, the 002 Bus transmission will have a new home in the back of a 1972 Beetle chassis.

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All parts used in this video that are available at: http://www.jbugs.com/

https://www.jbugs.com/product/3195.html - EMPI Bus Trans to Bug Kit

Tool that SHOULD have been used (if Sam had found his)
https://www.jbugs.com/product/5773.html - IRS Pivot Bolt Socket

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