Date:         Fri, 18 Apr 2003 21:00:03 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Automatic to manual conversion...
Comments: To: ok artguy <okartguy@HOTMAIL.COM>
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JJ,

Did you ever consider rebuilding the thing yourself?? It's my
understanding that the rebuilding of the autotranny in the vans is
imminently doable in the home garage. Not so the the manual tranny,
however. You may be going from good to bad if you switch to a manual
tranny. And such a swap is a PITA. Historically, the auto tranny in the
Vanagons is much tougher than the manuals, which have inherent parts
failure problems.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

ok artguy wrote:

> I'm still looking for a transmission solution for my '90 GL automatic. I
> have an opportunity to pick up an '86 parts car with a good 4sp. trans
> for
> next to nothing, and am contemplating swapping the auto setup for the
> manual
> one. Is this a reasonable idea or ridiculously complicated prospect?
> Or does
> ANYONE have a decent auto trans I won't have to pay a thousand or so
> bucks
> for? At this point, I'm getting desperate to get this car back on the
> road,
> so any ideas would help. Thanks-
>
> JJ
> Oklahoma City
>
>
>
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