Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:21:11 -0500
Reply-To: Darrell Boehler <midwesty@TAOS.MIDWEST.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Darrell Boehler <midwesty@TAOS.MIDWEST.NET>
Subject: Re: auto vs. manual
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Hi Mike,
The bentley is pretty hard to beat with all the pictures and cut away .
You don't need all the special tools but a couple of them are difficult to
do a quality job without. One is the adjusting ring tool page 35.34
vw381/15 . You can make one of these with some angle iron and grind it to
fit. Another is the round nut tool page page 35.38 vw 381.14 . I feel you
absolutely need one of these to torque the round nut back down to 162 ft
lbs.. I have talked to some, even full time mechanics who have taken the
091 apart and put it back without any special tools. I have make a round
nut tool from a plumbing coupling and used a dermal and file to put the
teeth in it to fit the serration's on the round nut. This took much time
and patience, I am retired I usually have both.
You will need gear pullers and some pipe to move gears and bearings
off and on. You need to be a bit of a gear head and maybe have a friend lend
a helping hand at times. The transaxle is probably easier to rebuild than an
engine. I have done rebuilds without a shop press but now have one and
used it quite a lot on my recent 091/1 rebuild.
Several of the other tools may be nice to have but I have been able to
use regular shop tools for measuring and setting clearances.
Darrell
Ps.There was once upon a time a Bob Hoover sermon on transaxle rebuilds that
I used to gather knowledge and courage enough to do my first transaxle
rebuild. Thanks Bob and we miss your sermons. Maybe someone on the list
knows him well enough to extract the transaxle sermon from him for all to
use.
-----Original Message-----
From: mike and becky <mayfly95@PAONLINE.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: auto vs. manual
>Darrell,
>
>How difficult was the 3rd and 4th sychro hub to replace? Any "special"
tools
>required? Would you be willing to post your procedure for us?
>
>Thanx
>
>Mike
>87 Wolf W/E (with whining tranny)
>
>Darrell Boehler wrote:
>
>> -------------------
>> Hi Volks,
>> I kind of like the way the 091/1 transaxle is designed. It has some
>> improvements over the 091 or 002 that used to be a pita. The shift rods
are
>> nice and long and are held on both ends so shifts are still firm and sure
>> even after 200k miles. If you do your own transaxle work they are much
>> easier to adjust and work on. No special jigs needed to adjust shift
forks.
>> From the list I notice some are prone to the breaking syncro hubs. I
>> have never experienced this. Mine had a worn pinion gear recently that
>> caused a pretty good whine (had to crank the cd pretty good to hear
Jerry).
>> My 86 westy has 244k miles and I was impressed with how well the bearings
>> and other gears have held up. I did replace the 3rd / 4th gear syncro
hub,
>> R and P , along with most bearings and I am back on the road again.
>> Darrell
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JordanVw@AOL.COM <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
>> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
>> Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 9:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: auto vs. manual
>>
>> >In a message dated 98-09-10 09:35:29 EDT, mgajewski@MANVILLERUBBER.COM
>> writes:
>> >
>> ><< Also, I always thought manual tranny's were much simpler and
therefore
>> > less trouble prone. I mean, no funky valve plates and little balls
>> > moving around and all that junk. Auto's are more reliable? I still
find
>> > that hard to believe...what gives?
>> > Mark
>> > >>
>> >
>> >
>> >the watercooled Vanagon manual transmissions are a poor design, and have
a
>> >tendency to develop a crack between 3rd and 4th gear on the "slider
>> >hub"...anyway, this usually leads to problems with 3rd gear, and the
only
>> way
>> >to fix is to rebuild or replace ($$)
>> >
>> >the watercooled Vanagon automatics are based on the early rabbit/jetta
>> >transmission and have no more problems than any other auto trans out on
the
>> >market.
>> >
>> >lack of performance man. vs auto. is very minimal. ive driven both.
>> >
>> >odds are, if you own a 4spd Vanagon, you will experience transmission
>> failure,
>> >long before someone with a automatic Vanagon does.
>> >
>> >i would stick with an automatic, if you want reliability.
>> >
>> >chris
>> >
>
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