Date:         Sun, 13 Jun 2021 15:18:41 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Syncro trans input shaft guide sleeve
Comments: To: Neil <musomuso@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CAB2RwfhwtOWOpMtRy0PH4s4k7QDZN5x7YboqXWYCrY7EFDF9gA@mail.gmail.com>
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All three good.

Btw, tranny is out and hanging on hoist.

Cleaning the oil and dirt off it. The Shift selector seal really increased its leak rate recently :-)

One output shaft weeping too. And I kinda wonder if the diff lock shaft is leaking a bit .

Scraping the heavy dirt and oil from the trans…

#vanlife

:-)

Alistair 

> On Jun 13, 2021, at 3:15 PM, Neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> LOL. Yes I'm sure!
> 
> I'm sure you'd notice this if it was an issue but I found one of the
> threaded holes in the clutch housing on my 2wd air cooled tranny was
> stripped out. Easy fix though.
> 
> Neil.
> 
>> On 6/13/21, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Well it seems obvious now Neil!
> 
> 
>>> On Jun 13, 2021, at 2:45 PM, Neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> My take on that is:
>>> 
>>> "if guide is plastic, do not grease"
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil n
> 
> VE7TBN
> 
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> 
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> 
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