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Date:         Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:56:52 -0500
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: Manual or AT?
Comments: To: Scott Sullivan <gersil0@LYCOS.COM>
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From my reading and study of the autotranny vs. the manual tranny, the Vanagon auto tranny is the stronger of the two. Over time you will have less grief with it. You can also overhaul the auto tranny yourself at home, with out haveing to have special jigs, etc, as you do with the manual tranny.

John Rodgers 88 GL Driver w/manual tranny wishing for the auto to relieve a bad knee!!

Scott Sullivan wrote:

>Doing some looking for the new Westy for our house. Never have owned an auto trans but am thinking about it. Seems that there are more postings asking for help with manual transmissions than Auto transmissions. > >I am looking for opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of automatic transmissions in a Westy. > >Thanks > > >____________________________________________________________ >Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! >http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 > > >


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