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Date:         Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:44:22 -0500
Reply-To:     Wesley Alden Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Wesley Alden Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      very mysterious tranny problem...
In-Reply-To:  <362DD960-FB72-11D7-B1D0-000393D4F99E@jdevilla.com>
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So...
If I go out to my van right now and start driving around, it will shift
like butter.  I mean reallly smooth.  I just put redline mt90 in 2 weeks
ago, and it feels like it.


But after driving through the city for ~30mintutes or so, it gets tougher
and tougher to shift, to the point where it takes a couple tries to go
from 4th to 3rd gear.  Next day?  Smooth as butter.  What's going on?


On a possibly unrelated note, the shifter (not the tranny, I think)
sometimes makes a sqeaking noise along the 1st-2nd gear axis, kind of like
a window wiping noise.  Is there anything I can lube to fix this?


Thanks for any help on these!
wes
'84 (manual) vanagon.
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