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Re: transmission questions 200 1981

posted by  someone claiming to be chris herbst on  Mon Oct 29 16:33 CST 2001 [RELATED]

I would be pretty surprised if you couldn't find an M46 that was used, for as much or less than having someone rebuild the OD on the current one.

The M47 conversion is almost imposible, but not totally. You'd need a new rear axle with speed sensor (or parts to refit it to current). That in and of itself is impractical.

Then you have to diddle with putting in the electric speedo for the proper axle ratio, and wiring it into your current one. There may be some shortcuts somewhere here, but for the life of me, I haven't ever been able to find any possible way to do it other than to convert to an electric speedo. The M47II trans didn't have the ability to drive a manual cable speedometer as far as I know. This is one area where I'd say you could just score a later eighties parts car to switch the transmission out of. It isn't worth it. But the M46 transmission is pretty common in junkyards, although they do go through some of them because of OD problems.

Besides that, the M47 is like the later-eighties Audis. If you got a good one, you got a good one. But if it gave you a headache, it was a migraine.





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