Can anyone help this poor soul? He's about to lose heart. His email address is PIPNOTIS@aol.com ---- Begin Original Message ---- hey, i just bought an '83 vanagon about a month ago for $1500 and ever since i've owned it it's been a big problem. it took quite a bit of cash to make it street legal and now i've lost second gear. the transmition problem hapened yesterday and i've gotten quite a bit of advice from vw people. i think my best option is to find an old tranny and change it out with mine. the problem is i don't know which model vanagons would have the proper tansmition for mine. i have a late '83 model, so that makes it water cooled. anyways, i was trying to find a solution for that when i was driving to my sister's house tonite and my radiator blew up. following that my oil ran dry and i had to pull over on the freeway and get a ride home. see, my temperature guage doesn't work so i didn't know that the radiator had been drained and that my oil was the only thing keeping the engine cool,and you know the rest. well, i jjust don't know what in the hell to do. did i get ripped off or just unlucky? should i dump the van or try to salvage it? it's still sitting on the side of 101 and i'll try to get it in the morning, but as far as what to do with it after that i just don't know. i'm not sure if you can help me out but i would appeciate any advice you can give me. thanx, in-a-ditch santa rosa,ca pipnotis@aol.com
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Michael B. Harrnacker 89 Vanagon GL Weekender 91 Golf http://silverstone.fortunecity.com/jaguar/270 vanagon@fcmail.com ______________________________________________________ Sent by FortuneCity Mail at http://www.fortunecity.com
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