Date:         Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:22:39 -0600
Reply-To:     Fred Porter <fporter@EYRING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Fred Porter <fporter@EYRING.COM>
Organization: EYRING, Corp.
Subject:      loud transmission clanging in reverse?????
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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hey all you tranny gurus:

after the last couple of road trips ive been on, my trans behaves oddly:
I will have been driving at highway speeds for hours, only going
forwards and only slowing for hills or stopping for gas.  then when i
put it in reverse, the van bucks/lurches while i am trying to back up
and the transmission is ringing/clanging loudly in harmony with the
lurches.  (this happened last night, again, at the end of a 9 hour
interstate drive).  It seems that after the engine/trans totally cool
down it operates ok:  this morning it drives just fine, forwards and
reverse.

the syncro 4wd 5spd trans and clutch have approximately 55,000mi on them
and i am running Redline MTL (75w-90)

does anyone know what this problem is???

thanks,
fred