mistake in gears on scirocco.org site?

[fahrvergnugen at cox.net (fahrvergnugen@cox.net)]

---- Drew Mac <type53@gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 1/21/07, raveracer77 <raveracer77@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     In talking with Ron a few months back he informed me that the
> > information for the AOP on most of my site references is wrong leading me to
> > believe they all use the same source.  He told me that the Gear ratios may
> > be right but the AOP had 90 mm hubs on them and not 100 mm like some of the
> > other TD trannies I was looking for even the the gear ratios appeared to be
> > the same.  My understanding is that the AOP was used in the 89 / 90 Jetta
> > 1.9 NA Diesel, and the ACH was in an earlier Golf Turbo Diesel, but I've
> > had to interpret the many different pieces of information I'm finding and
> > many of them conflicting.  Now I'm looking for ATH ratios because they seem
> > to be most consistent and have my 100mm hubs and the .75 fifth gear.  I'll
> > let you know if my source for multiple cores comes through.  I'll post to
> > the list before selling them to the local vendor.
> 
> 
> 
> According to ETKA the ACH was used in 85 MY 1.6L diesel Golfs and both
> diesel and turbo diesel Jettas.  It used 90mm CV flanges.
> 
> The AOP was used in 89 MY 1.6L normally aspirated diesel Golfs and Jettas,
> and also used 90mm CV flanges (as did all 1.6 NA diesel applications.)  The
> 4S was used in TD Jettas.
> 
> The difference between the AOP and the 4S was 4th gear - 1.03 in the AOP for
> the 52hp NA diesel, and .91 in the 4S for the 70hp turbo diesel.
> 
> Note there were no turbo-diesel A2 platform Golfs in the North American
> market, only NA diesels.
> 
> Transmission code overview under V-pages in Etka can be a helpful source of
> application information.
> 
> Drew
> 


---All,
  While I am no specific help on this particular problem, I would like to point out that occasionally the info. in ETKA is wrong.  Please bear that in mind...

My .02

David