Date:         Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:31:52 -0500
Reply-To:     Hector Zapata <hector.zapata@XRXGSN.COM>
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From:         Hector Zapata <hector.zapata@XRXGSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 5 Feb 2001 (#2001-185)
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>In a message dated 2/7/01 1:48:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>radish150@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
><< separate the
> tranny from the diff you can replace your own seal. Does it NEED rebuilt?
>>
> The seals are going (there are two, back to back) because the pinion
bearing
>is going...changing seals is only going to help for a while
>
>steve
>
>"Hey! nice Jeep, Mister! "
>"Look kid, it's NOTAJEEP! "

I had trouble with mine, not shifting into third gear. Bought a rebuild kit,
that has everything, including the clutches, seals and o-rings. Because I
didn't  follow the Bentley, a friend that helped me told me he had done it
before, and we didn't pull the differential. So out it went to be rebuilt,
is very simple actually, and when it was finished, we went to install the
thing, it wouldn't go in. So, my friend tried real hard and mounted it, I
started the van, and nothing happened. So, out it came, this time I lowered
EVERYTHING, and took it back, explained what happened, and it resulted on a
lot of internals destroyed. I found a used tranny, for cheap, from an Audi,
and whatever was needed was used. All this transmissions are the same
inside, the kit is the same for VW,Audi and some Porsches. Well, as the
story goes, it failed again, the one way clutch was destroyed because one or
two parts were assembled backwards, and it had to be repaired again. This
time I located another friend of mine, but this guy knows about VWs and
transmissions, and he's a licensed mechanic. He repaired the thing on top of
a small table, at my house, in two afternoons. I took the converter to have
it flushed, and all is well since then. Cost of all this, with both labor
and parts, less than 1k, that's for both repairs together. Sorry for the
length, but I hope this helps for something. Hector, 1990 carat