Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:19:04 -0700
Reply-To: "kevin.m.burns" <kevin.m.burns@HOME.COM>
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From: "kevin.m.burns" <kevin.m.burns@HOME.COM>
Subject: Re: wanted to buy standard transmission for 87 gas westy 2wd
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I had a similar problem with my '86 synchro. I couldn't shift from 3rd to
4th gear when I was going over 40 mph. Under 40 mph I could shift. As it
turned out, the shift ring which shifts from 3rd and engages 4th on the same
shaft was cracked in 3 places (broken into 2 pieces). On the later models,
VW apparently beefed up the web of this shift ring and eliminated the square
corners from which the stress fractures eminated. Cost $1500 to have it
rebuilt.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Kozak <kozakmike1@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: wanted to buy standard transmission for 87 gas westy 2wd
> 1986 to 1991 standard 4 speed preferred. Please respond to
> kozakmike1@hotmail.com
>
> Appears my 3rd and 4th synchronizers are toast. While returning from
> California on my way home to Indiana my pilot bearing bit the big one.
> After replacing the bearing and clutch (in a campground in idaho)
everything
> was great for a few hundred miles. then it became difficult to get out of
> 3rd and 4th gears. Stopping and rocking the van worked for a while. Then
I
> started getting grinding going into third and fourth. Upon installing the
> linkage after replacing the clutch I pushed the linkage socket up firmly
on
> the shifter arm ball before tightening the bracket that secures the
lingage
> rod to the transmission housing. I speculate that I should have allowed
> some slop in this joint. Now only double clutching and a lot of luck
> prevents major grind in 3rd and 4th. I find it impossible so far to
> downshift from 4th to 3rd without major grinding. I put in redline mt90
and
> found no improvement. Goes into reverse fine and have always had a little
> touchiness going into 2nd, but double clutching takes care of 2nd fine. I
> suspect my leaf peeping trips this fall will be accompanied by a grinding
> transmission.
>
> Please respond to kozakmike1@hotmail.com
>
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