Date:         Mon, 9 May 2011 16:18:23 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Lockers -- how hard to install LLSD?
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I'm going to be taking 2WD Mellow Yellow to the shop to get the tranny
lowered so a Gowesty external ATF cooler can be installed. Considering
the three (3!) times I got stuck last year (a soupy gravel-in-mud soil,
a sandy soil on a steep slope, and deep soft cinders on a highway
shoulder) I'm not in the least enamored with the full-slip differential
my van is outfitted with.* A locking limited slip differential (LLSD)
may have made a substantial difference in at least one of those three
cases, maybe all three. Not being an idiot would also help, but at the
age of 61 I've decided that idiocy is simply something I have to live
with, while hardware can be changed.

How difficult is it to pull the differential and install another?
Transmission shop work only (I see that Daryl at AA Transaxle can do it.
But he's all the way up near Seattle), or can your general mechanic
handle it?

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* A syncro would be nice but let's be realistic here. For the same
amount of money I could get the master bedroom remodeled which would
make Mrs Squirrel a darn sight happier than if I bought a van. Happy
wife, happy life -- my motto.
--
Rocky J Squirrel
'84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
'74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR