Date:         Mon, 15 May 2000 16:27:02 -0700
Reply-To:     Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
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From:         Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Tranny
Comments: To: "Ferguson, Christopher R SGT" <FergusonCR@HQ.7ARCOM.ARMY.MIL>
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At 3:00 PM +0200 5/15/00, Ferguson, Christopher R SGT wrote:
>Hello everyone
>
>I'm looking for info about my tranny.  I have a 85 German spec vanagon with
>a 1.8l carbed motor.  The tranny went out and I replace it with another one
>from the same type of vanagon not sure of the year but same motor as my 85.
>My question is this.  I was told it was a 5 speed but I have 6 forward
>gears.

Are you *sure?*  *SIX* forward gears?!?  That would be so cool.  With
my diesel, I'd *love* to have 6 forward gears, especially if they
could be closer in ratio to each other, and if the lower end could be
(even) lower.  Maybe a bit taller on the top gear would be OK too,
but I'm such a slow poke it wouldn't be that big a deal.

I'd love to learn more about this thing.  You gonna rebuild it or
replace it?  Thinking about picking something like that up and
putting it in my bus just makes me twitch...

T.
(with a growly noisy tranny)

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Tobin Copley   Bowen Island, BC, Canada              tobin.copley@ubc.ca

'82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
'97 son Russell                                   =============
'99 daughter Margaret                            /_| |__| |__|:| clatter
1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi       O|.           .| clatter!
1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT   7,400 km        ~-()-==----()-~
Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango)
http://www.sfu.ca/~tcopley/vw/