<< At 2:08 PM -0500 8/1/98, Harmon Seaver wrote: >I just pulled the engine on my '73 westy -- somehow the >tranny main shaft pulled out with it. Not all the way, of >course, but it now comes out about 6-8 inches from >where it should be, and no longer connects to anything >inside........ To which Otmar Ebenhoech replied: << No Problem. Just push it back in, rotate it a bit to make the splines line up. This is a common problem, the threads that hold the input shaft in are stripped. I've run a few trannys like that for years>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- Ok, now for my 2 cents or so: How do you get the coupler for the mainshaft and input shaft on then?? I don't see any way to do this job without removing the bellhousing. The reason that the input shaft comes out 6 or so inches is that the snap ring retainer for the coupler is still on the input shaft and is striking the backside of the bellhousing bore hole. This means that the coupler and its internal splines to match the external spline on the above mentioned shafts is either still on the mainshaft or has fallen off and is laying some- where in the differential section. The bellhousing has to come off. How else can you screw the shafts together and then slide the coupler down the input shaft onto the matching splines on the mainshaft and have the coupler's external teeth for the reverse sliding gear shaft mate with it's gear? Oh, and then slide the snap ring down the input shaft and seat it in it's groove? If this isn't making sense then take a peek at your Bentley and you'll see those splines, coupler, and snap ring. I can see how you could fish around and get the two shafts to line up and thread together but the coupler part has me stumped. Todd Hill VolksWerks Transaxles Olympia, WA |
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