DOes anyone know what cracks these? Is it shifting hard? What can be done to prevent the cracking? Is there any way to tell from the outside if a Syncro trans. Has been updated with the new hubs? Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Todd Hill wrote: > In a message dated 98-06-06 01:17:49 EDT, Frank wrote: > > << While driving my '89 Vanagon today, as I pulled away > from a stop and shifted into third gear, the trans got stuck > in third. >> > > Todd Francis said it first and I agree with him. Sounds > like the dreaded 3rd/4th clutch hub crack and failure. > The only way to fix it is to rebuild your trans and install > the updated style clutch hub. I've seen a lot of this type > failure in the later watercooled 091 transaxles. The new > style hub seems to be working as I haven't had any > comebacks on my rebuilds! > > Todd Hill > VolksWerks Transaxles > Olympia, WA > |
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