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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:23:36 -0400
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From:   smitht@unb.ca (Tim Smith)
Subject:   re:(3) MSDS

Sounds too good to be true, that new (redesigned) syncronizer you mentioned certainly constitutes a design flaw fix. 80-140K? gulp! I'm due.

Looks like trouble ahead, driving that bus, coz you know your tranny just bit the dust!

apologies to the dead

Tim Smith

At 04:00 PM 12/13/95 -0600, steven.huss@bangate1.tek.com wrote: >Is this failure related to the 3rd/4th sychronizer problem that the 2wd >4sp can develop? What actually breaks in the syncro transmission? > >"Tom Forhan" <TFORHAN@hr.house.gov> Wrote: > >| We talked transmissions a while. He maintains that syncro >| transmissions have an design flaw that causes failure >| between 80K >| and 140K miles. He described it as a bearing problem, ^^^^^^^^

Trying to through us off track?


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