When I have tranny problems on a VW - and I have owned 1 Beetle, 1 loaf, and two Vanagons with manual tranny's - I never wasted any time screwing around with them. It simply is not worth it, even if getting the money together for a proper fix is a pain and a strain. Once you have a tranny rebuilt by someone who knows what they are doing, you will get long trouble free service, if you take good care of it. Four different VW's, four different tranny overhauls, and after each they never ever let me down. If you get it overhauled, start it's new life on Redline MT90. That sucker will prol'ly outlast you. My 2 cents. John Rodgers 88 GL Driver. Mycology wrote: > Hi all...well...once again my 84 westy vanagon is testing my patience. > yesterday after returning home from a road trip to sedona, jerome, and > prescott, arizona...second gear started spinning at about 20mph on a flat > road near my house. a few weeks ago...reverse started to go bad...where as I > could still use it...but i couldn't hold in the clutch and roll back in > reverse because the whole van would stop as if i had hit something...when in > reality it was the gears locking up. > > so...my question is...have any of you found that these tranny's are easy to > work on (i have some mechanical experience...and can pull my tranny on my > westy in less than a half hour)...or would it be easier just to buy another > working tranny from a junk yard or privately? if any of you have had the > same problems...please mail me and tell me your solution. > > also...if any of you have a four speed transmission for sale, please let me > know about it. thanks in advance! > > Myc > mycologee@aol.com > 84 Westy |
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