Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:53:13 -0700
Reply-To: Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
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From: Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
Subject: Re: 1990 Westy - do 3 transmissions have same problem?
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This is what I have discovered, in my sample of 3 transmissions in two vans:
'82 Diesel with stock DZ 4 speed - use passenger side set of holes
'88 Gas with stock ACW 4 speed - use passenger side set of holes
'88 TD conversion with '83 diesel DX 5 speed trans - use driver side set of holes
With the 5 speed, I tried the passenger side holes, and found the linkage interferes
with the coolant pipes, and the CVs were clearly more extended on the driver side
when I went to attach the driveshafts.
On 15 Oct 2005 at 23:59, Mark Brush <mbrush@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I shifted the location of my trans (moved the front end of it one inch to
> the left) - next I'll have to adjust the linkage to this location. Looks
> like I'll have to shift the exhaust a little too (one of the pipes now
> touches the metal below the rear bumber).
>
> I'm not convinced this was the right thing to do. Before I make all the
> other adjustments...does anyone know where exactly the front-end trans
> bracket should bolt to the frame? Should it be exactly smack-dab in the
> middle of the frame? Or more to one side than the other?
>
> I'm tempted to go crawl under another Vanagon in town so I can measure where
> their bracket falls on the frame. :-)
>
> Thanks for your help - I'm new to this list and I sooo glad it exists!!
>
> Mark B.
> Ann Arbor, MI
>
> On 10/11/05, jimt <camper@tactical-bus.info> wrote:
> >
> > Good chance that the shifting of location is part or all of the problem.
> > Shift rods are no longer going to line up correctly.
> > jimt
> >
> > On 10/11/05 7:57 AM, "Mark Brush" <mbrush@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > >> When I was under the bus, I noticed that there were 8 bolt holes where
> > the
> > >> front end of the transmission bolts into the frame of the bus instead
> > of 4
> > >> ("front end" meaning where the transmission bushing bolts into the
> > frame
> > >> of
> > >> the bus). It seems like a previous owner shifted the front end of the
> > >> transmission to the left by an inch (maybe the original bolt holes
> > >> stripped
> > >> out). Could this possibly have an effect on second gear shifting? Are
> > the
> > >> eight bolt holes for the transmission normal? What are the odds of
> > having
> > >> three transmissions with bad second gears?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for any help!
> > >>
> > >> Sincerely,
> > >>
> > >> Mark
> >
> >
>
Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D
'88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
(see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy