Date:         Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:26:23 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Young <tomyoung1@ATTBI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Young <tomyoung1@ATTBI.COM>
Subject:      A transmission question
Comments: cc: type2@type2.com

Hi all:

I'm going to pull the transmission and engine from my newly-acquired '82
Westy together.

While I'm pawing through the engine I was thinking it would be a "good
thing" (as Martha Stewart says) to clean the innards of the transmission,
and I thought I might drain it of gear oil and then fill it up and let is
sit for a while with automatic transmission fluid.  Is anybody aware of any
problems with this approach?  I figure it would probably sit for a couple of
weeks (or more) before I drained it again and re-filled it with regular gear
oil, so I'm wondering if there would be any problems with the various seals
and so forth.  Or is this a case of trying to be too sanitary in a situation
that doesn't warrant it?

TIA.
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Tom Young
Lafayette, CA 94549
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