I started seeing people encouraging the guy to do it, ..........talking about the pilot bearing etc. and I'm thinking 'wasn't this about an auto trans?' .........it is. and it's not just a tranny swap, the guy is contemplating rebuilding his own vanagon automatic trans. Daryl made some insightful comments on that today, on the list. I'd say yes, go for it, but be very, VERY careful. It's quite tricky for a first timer I'm sure. scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mervyn Readman" <themervino@GMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:43 PM Subject: Re: Internal Debate
> Go for it. The technical side is really not that difficult. It's just > real grunt work. Like Neil said have something to support the weight of > that > thing that also allows you to drop it down slow with some semblance of > control. Thats what I think is the hardest part of the job. I did my first > tranny swap with zero idea of what I was doing but there is so much info > available you can surely do it. > > Besides it will save you enough money so you can buy that fancy full on > scissor style tranny jack the next time you need to work on it. Merv |
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