Date:         Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:20:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Mechanic had to pull transmission again, what would you do?
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--- Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM> wrote:


"This must be a 'different strokes' kind of
> thing... I find auto trannys in
> general easier to r&r than the manuals I've
> done. It does help to have a
> second person for a few minutes to put the auto
> back in the vanagon "

I'll give you a call next time I do a auto trans!


Robert

1982 Westfalia
















> --snip--
> > Changing out a manual Vanagon trans is easy.
> It's
> > more complicated with the Syncro, and a real
> bear
> > in a automatic.
> >
> > I make one concession- If I found someone to
> > replace the automatic trans for 1,000, and
> the
> > Vanagon was worth several thousand, like a
> > camper, I say- yes.
> --snip--
>
> This must be a 'different strokes' kind of
> thing... I find auto trannys in
> general easier to r&r than the manuals I've
> done. It does help to have a
> second person for a few minutes to put the auto
> back in the vanagon but it
> isn't strictly necessary. I haven't done a
> vanagon manual and after reading
> what you guys go through with them I don't know
> that I want to, but the auto
> seems pretty straightforward.
> The worst time I ever had putting a tranny back
> into a car was a five-speed
> on a Rabbit diesel with the engine in. I
> must've been doing something wrong
> in the first place, and I think if I ever had
> to do it again I'd drop the
> engine and put them back as a unit.
> My floor jack had crapped out and I put the
> tranny on my chest and benched
> it while my step-dad tried to guide it onto
> some splines on the flywheel, or
> vice versa (this was twenty years ago). I
> must've benched that damn thing
> forty times before we got it on right. It
> slipped one of those times and
> dumped a bunch of gear oil on my face, mouth
> and neck. For years after
> whenever I smelled that rank 90w smell I would
> gag. Yum.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>


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