Please help! VW - Great Plains changing pusher to tractor

[Jim55]

I have a brand new-in box 2300cc type 1 engine from Great Plains. It is a front-drive engine, (prop is on opposite side from flywheel) but a pusher. Looking at the manual, changing it from a pusher to a tractor engine is straight forward: The thrust surface of the bearing at the flywheel end needs to be reversed so that the thrust washers are at the engine side of the bearing.

Does this mean that one has to split the engine case to do this? Or can one simply remove the flywheel and work from that side?

I do not want to split the engine since it was assembled and test run at the factory and they rated it at 85hp.

Thanks

Jim

 

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