Sanbyj@TELKOM.CO.ZA writes: << My fourth gear went in a most perculiar way... When in fourth, it was as if I was in nutral - all the other gears worked ok. What had happened was that the gear is made up of two parts: 1 the gear teeth and the other part is the engaging part (Sorry for my names but I don't know the proper names) These two are supposed to be fixed together. Heat pressed or something, but they became loose so that when the gear was engaged, nothing happened. >> On some early model's the clutch or dogring for the gears was brazed on. This is the ring that the 3rd/4th gear slider grabs onto when you shift into gear and transmits the torque through the system. VW found out that this braze would fail and the dog ring would just spin on the gear, much like what happend to Jimmy. They went to an electron beam welding procedure with later units that seems to have cured the problem. -Todd Hill VolksWerks Transaxles Olympia, WA |
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