Great pics Alistair. As shown in the diagram, if one is feeling adventurous, the U joint (later style transmission) does come apart and can be greased. Mine have a *little* play but the shift linkage is still pretty tight. IIRC some of the vendors sell those parts. And a small caution. I installed a new transmission shift lever boot. It cracked very quickly. Pretty sure it wasn't installer error. Just suggesting that even if one has a boot that looks a bit old, it may out last a new one. Neil. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > not as exciting as an oil cooler, but I did muck around on the van > today. Cleaned and lubed read end of shift linkage > > http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/vanagon-syncro-shift-linkage-rear-and-a-glance-at-the-front/ > > and I put a check valve on the windscreen washer line. I had it on my > old van, can't say if it really makes much of a difference but what > the heck. > > http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/vanagon-check-valve-on-windscreen-washer-line/ > > alistair >
-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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