the 12v flywheel is slightly bigger than the 6 volt type. If you were converting up to 12 volts on a 6 volt car, the 12 volt flywheel was too big to fit within the 6 volt transaxle's bellhousing without some grinding to the inside of it to allow the 12 volt ring gear to clear the housing. There are all kinds of articles (and now, youtube videos) on how to hog out the radius of the bellhousing for clearance with a die grinder, but the cheap and dirty way was to put some long bolts through the bellhousing-to-engine block holes, loosely attach the two together, then start up the engine. Then all you had to do was slowly draw them evenly together and let the ring gear be your milling machine! It worked great as long as you took it apart and cleaned out all that magnesium dust and millings (great fun to toss into a fire!) and replaced the trans imput seal.
In my youth our gang got to where we could replace a complete VW beetle engine- from backing up on the ramps to driving off of them under its own power again- in less than 1/2 hour. Slightly longer if somebody forgot to undo the throttle cable!
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