Date:         Fri, 16 May 2003 21:53:12 -0700
Reply-To:     armando guzman <razeprotrk@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         armando guzman <razeprotrk@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Automatic transmission repair guide
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To all tinkerers and shade tree mechanics: I recentle acquired a 1988
Vanagon, Wolfsburg adition, with a bad automatic transmission. The car was
super-clean and the price was very good, so I got it. I have been fiddling
with all types of VW for 25 years, T-1 to T4 and everything in between, but
I never tackled an automatic transmission. A friend of mine in Yerington,
Nevada, who is a AT expert, told me is a piece of cake, so I went to visit
him for the weekend, brought the auto transmission with me and he took it
apart in front of me in less than a six pack of beer. I was impressed by how
easy it was to take the transmission apart. The next weekend I brought the
rebuild kit and all the seals and he put it back together in no time at all.
  I took pictures of everything we did, and made notes along the way. Now, I
want to know if anybody in this forum would be interested in spending $25
plus shipping for a very well illustrated guide to dissassemble and
re-assemble a Vanagon automatic transmission. I don't want to say it is a
repair manual. It is not. It is a guide on how to do the work, with color
pictures of every step. Hotmail only allowed me one picture, but I can
e-mail more samples upon request. I'm thinking of recording all the info on
a cd, using Microsoft Publisher, but I can also do it in plain 8.5X11 with
pictures and text, using Microsoft Word. Please note that the vanagon
transmission is a two piece unit: the transmission part and the final drive
part. This guide only covers the auto transmission part. The final drive can
follow later, if I get enough people interested in learning how to do it.
You can reply to this forum or you can e-mail me directly at
razeprotrk@hotmail.com

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