A little mechanical education? I'm quite aware how the Vanagon transmission works. :-) The fact that the noise is still there in neutral doesn't mean a CV still couldn't be the culprit...mechanical drag internally will still cause the output flange to turn if the CV joint was broken. That said, I do know of at least one person who broke one and then another input shaft sleeve in his Syncro; turned out the needle bearing of the input shaft was kaput. I hope it's not a new tranny you need! Karl David Kao wrote: > There are two driving shafts in the transmission. You can call one > input shaft and the other output shaft. The output shaft drives the > ring gear and the drive shaft and CV joints. With the gears set in > neutral the output shaft is not spinning. So the noise really can not > be from the CV joints. It is probably a shattered sleeve on the input > shaft that connects the main shafts in the bell housing and the main > shaft in the gear box. Or there is something in the gear box. If it is > the sleeve I am extremely lucky. It can be easily replaced. I have had > a chattering clutch for many years. The sleeve may be worn badly then > finally gave up. |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.