Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:49:34 -0700
Reply-To: Sean Garrett <SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU>
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From: Sean Garrett <SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU>
Subject: Re: wearing down my westy
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You forgot an IMPORTANT prelim step:
BEFORE you loosen the screws get a magic marker and mark the outline of where the plate lies in its original position. This insures you can get it back to the original position if things get worse after you move it.
Been there, done that (mistake)
Sean Garrett
81 Westy (his)
95 EVC (hers)
87 Syncro (Subie project)
82 Parts Vanagon (need a part ?)
Central Arizona
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Gerald Masar
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:12 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: wearing down my westy
>
>
> For hard to shift into 1st and 2nd, try this:
> pull up the rubber boot at the base of the shifter, put
> the shifter in 2nd gear
> (if you can), loosen the screws on the metal plate and move
> the whole thing toward the
> steering wheel. It won't move much. Retighten the screws.
> Worked for me and others.
> Jerry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bravo Sierra" <phlogiston@ISPWEST.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:50 PM
> Subject: wearing down my westy
>
>
> i just completed a 2 month, 15k mile tour of the country in
> my '86 westy. all in all
> my van was very mechinically fortuitus for the duration of
> the trip, but she did
> develop two annoying issues during the last 5k miles that i'd
> like to adress now that
> i'm home.
>
> first, it has become very difficult to shift into first or
> second gear. it often
> takes signifigant force and several attempts to get into
> gear. there doesn't seem to
> be any temperature dependence (ambient or tranny) in how much
> effort is required. i'm
> pretty confident that the clutch is disengaging all the way,
> so it seems that the
> syncros are bad for those gears, except that the tranny was
> supposedly rebuilt last
> year before i bought the van. but i doubt the transmission
> fluid has been changed
> since then... is it possilbe that a flush of the
> transmission fluid could remedy this
> problem? what fluid to people reccomend? synthetic?
>
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