Date:         Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:22:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Dan Eggert <deggert@NEW.RR.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dan Eggert <deggert@NEW.RR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Easy vanagon repairs, yes it can happen
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This could have been a potentially fatal problem, but it was an easy fix.  Last week when I was making a run to the photo lab just about a mile from my house, my shifting got really tight.  I thought that my linkage had slipped so I would force it into gear and make my way home.  When I got under the van to check it out, the bolt holding the transmission in had backed its way out except for the last 1/4" that the threads had got stuck in the rubber mount.  The trans already had dropped about an inch.  It would have been fixed immediately, but I didn't have a floor jack so I had to wait for a buddy of mine to get home from work and drive his over.  Got a new nut and a lockwasher that my mechanic friend forgot to put in the first time and bolted it right up.  Working fine now, thank God it didn't drop out while on the road, I can't even imagine what would have happened then.

Eggz

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