I waited until my 90 had 360,000 before the tranny became an issue. During its life nothing was ever done to it in term of repair, oil changes, etc..... Jere
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Kai Mei Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:41 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: My van has about 220k miles, what are the chances that the manual tranny has never been rebuilt? Do some of them last that long, w/o the dreaded 3/4 lider grenading? Is that problem always fixed on rebuilt trannys? Thanks. 1987.5 4 speed. |
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