Re: Unknown transmission scirocco

[VWMikeLVW@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/14/01 5:40:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
rmccarthy777@msn.com writes:


> The only one I know of like that, is the auto stick trannies in the old 
> beetles. It was really just a vaccuum operated clutch. When you went to 
> change gears, you placed pressure on the top of the shifter. This caused 
> two electrical contacts in the shifter to touch. This closed a circuit that 
> operated a solenoid. The solenoid opened a vaccuum line to a vaccuum servo 
> which in turn released the clutch through a solid linkage on the transaxle. 
> They only made them for a few years (68 -74, 75 I believe, in the US 
> anyway). HTH
>  


They also had such a transmission on some A3 VW's in Europe.

Mike
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