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Date:         Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:03:01 -0700
Reply-To:     David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject:      HELP - Pilot bearing marked up my input shaft
Comments: To: Syncro@yahoogroups.com, TDI-conversion@yahoogroups.com
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OK - vehicle is a 1986 Syncro Westfalia with a high powered TDI engine
installed.  After 50.000km on the swap I noticed gear oil coming out
between the engine and gearbox.


Upon removing the gearbox, I
noticed that the pilot bearing is now just an outer shell with all of the
insides totally gone.  The input shaft where the pilot bearing was
resting is mildly chewed up with some scoring where it was bouncing
around.  On the sleeve where it enters the gearbox is some more mild
scoring but not on the area where the seal is.


Does this mean
it is time for a new input shaft or would buffing it at the pilot bearing
area with some emery cloth be all that is needed?


How does one
one correctly remove the input shaft as I do have a 2nd gearbox here that
I can remove one from.


Thanks in advance!


David
Marshall
 
http://www.hasenwerk.ca
Box 4153, Quesnel BC,
Canada V2J 3J
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