If you know someone who is good with this sort of thing, you may be able to drill out that bolt (or actually, stud) and remove it with an easy-out. Once it's out, putting in a new one is a piece of cake. Glad to hear that your problems were that easy to repair. Karl Wolz ----- Original Message ----- From: "van man" <vannman99@YAHOO.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:55 PM Subject: Clanging Reverse Solved, thanks archives!
> She'd been clanging bad in reverse, popping out of > gear, barely able to even get her into reverse... > Archives said possible motor mounts. I slid > underneath and found the lower two bolts holding the > tranny to the motor to be loose...one is snapped and > stripped, the other just missing the nut. I replaced > the one nut, so now I have 3 out of 4 cranked down > tight - reverse problem solved. Hoping to get a few > thousand miles before dropping the tranny to replace > the 4th bolt. > > Also replaced a leaky slave cyl - what a pain. Much > easier to take the mount off completely. Smooth > shifting now though... > > Thanks list, > > jeff > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ |
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