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• Re: 5 speed transmission
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:55:33 -0700
  Technically, the Syncro tranny is a 5 speed also, but the extra gear is at the very low end so really a 4 speed...
• Re: oil pump blueprinting question
  Historical mailing list - Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN)
  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:53:10 -0400
  ...Install the top gear into the pump, and install it OUT OF INDEX (not in the slot). Measure the distance from the gear to...
• Re: Manual Trans question
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Fri, 5 Oct 2012 23:50:35 -0400
  I've seen a few Porsche gear boxes with similar problems...2nd and 4th. Jason On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:13 PM...
• Re: [Syncro] Re: 16" alloys for the vanagon, check this out
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 25 May 2001 22:26:19 +1200
  ...An R&P swap changes the driven gears in the differential (the pinion is located on the end of the gearbox output shaft, and...
• Re: [Syncro] HELP - Pilot bearing marked up my input shaft
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:13:27 -0700
  That basic procedure works with 2 spider gear Vanagon diffs but the recessed hole you speak off is not there on 4 spider gear...
• Re: Grinding into Secong Gear when Cold
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:12:30 -0800
  ...Lubricate your shift linkage and change your transmission gear oil and replace it with Synthetic gear oil. I just lubricated and adjusted my shift...
• Re: Life after speedometer, why do they break?
  Historical mailing list - Bill H.
  Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:20:04 -0800
  ...When I picked it up, there was a gear in it again. He said the instrument was a standard manufacturer (VDO) and he had...
• Amsoil vs Redline gear oil - anyone tried?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Tue, 16 May 2000 11:18:39 -0700
  While I wait for my new ring & pinion set, I am still pondering the choices for gear oil on my Vanagon trans: Redline MT90...
• Re: Grinding into Secong Gear when Cold
  Historical mailing list - AA Transaxle
  Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:29:05 -0800
  ...After the temperature needle >> gets moving (~5min of driving) the grinding goes away and it also feels >> smoother shifting into other gears. Any ideas...
• Gear Ratio for Auto Differental?
  Historical mailing list - LonnieJacobs
  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:13:56 -0400
  Does anyone know what the gear ratio is for the differential in an automatic? Kathy Jacobs VW Trends Southeast Editor at Large South Eastern...
• Re: Manual shifting very difficult.
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:04:19 -1000
  ...Hangs in gear, can't shift, or can't get it in gear >> at >>> all. Reverse is difficult - often can't find it. Happens...
• Re: 1990 Westy - do 3 transmissions have same problem?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Brush
  Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:57:30 -0400
  ...Here's the problem: > > My original transmission (at least I thought it was original) lost its > second gear. It first started popping out, then...
• Clutch Judder
  Historical mailing list - Don Bolt
  Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:04:22 -0500
  ...With the engine shut down, we can shift all gears. Engine running, 1st gear is fine, 2nd gear is a little difficult, 3rd gear...
• Re: 5 speed transmission
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:57:24 -0600
  ...Same gearing as a wbx 4 speed but a granny gear added and reverse changed to granny as well. Mark mark drillock wrote: > > In...
• TransX
  Historical mailing list - Justin Gordon
  Thu, 7 Oct 1999 21:12:04 -0700
  I was ready to give up on my '84 vanagon when the beast would not go into any forward gears after starting. It would...
• Dead starter fixed
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sullivan
  Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:32:10 -0800
  ...Turned out to be a stuck starter. "The starter gear may be hung up in the flywheel, which happens from time to time...put...
• Re: Weird bucking
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:27:40 -0700
  ...Happens > in any gear, but is more pronounced the lower a gear > you are in (1st being worst, 4th being not too bad). > This...
• Re: slow van, overheating, fast white westy on 91
  Historical mailing list - John
  Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:21:54 GMT
  > I took my 91 Syncro Westy over Monarch Pass (route 50) and 2nd gear >was all I could do with the stock engine. And...
• Re: odometer repair- migating shaft
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:04:21 -0600
  ...The pot metal gear was then slipping. I could not get my speedo needle off to take it all apart. Somehow, I can't...
• Re: rebuilt tranny slipping out of 4th gear
  Historical mailing list - Tom Carrington
  Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:57:53 -0400
  ...A worn gear hub or operating sleve gives this type of slipping out of gear, but VW sells the hub and sleeve together- you...
• Re: aircooled transaxle with 1.6NA diesel
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:07:59 -0800
  ...can use the gears if > you have a mill) > A 091 VW gearbox is a 091 gearbox.is a 091 gearbox..some have different...
• Re: VANAGON GEARING
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:53:00 -0700
  Last tranny rebuild about five years ago I had a .77 4th gear installle to replace the stock .70 (or the other way around...
• Re: Syncro Gearbox synchromesh
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:27:02 +0100
  ...Syncro Gearbox synchromesh > > > > > > Tell me please anyone - is 3rd gear the synchromesh that usually > > packs = > > > up? > > > > > > Symptons: > > > Initially, gearlever started to feel a bit...
• Re: Hesitation starting in 1st gear
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:15:42 -0700
  ...All I can tell you is that both times I had those symptoms I lost first gear within a thousand miles or so and...
• hesitation/where's first gear
  Historical mailing list - Jenny Loerzel
  Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:57:56 -0500
  ...About a week ago, my van started to be hard to put into first gear, all of the rest of the gears were easy...
• Re: odometer gear repair method
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:18:17 -0700
  After several unsuccessful attempts to repair the odometer gear on my 84 GL, I eventually had North Hollywood Speedometer & Clock fix the darn thing...
• Re: Auto tranny lost 3rd gear
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:49:48 -0500
  If its like most other auto trannys this means a total rebuild because you have to unload everything else to get to 3rd gear...
• Re: Redline gear oil
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:30:03 -0400
  On 8/7/09, Bernie <berniej@gmail.com> wrote: > Is 75W90 the right weight for Redline gear oil in the vanagon.Thank you, > > > Bernie...
• Re: Limited Vanagon content: using reverse running transaxles
  Historical mailing list - Pat
  Sun, 22 Nov 1998 22:25:00 -0500
  ...Just concerned about the helical gears. The strait cut reverse gear could care less which way it turns, but I think helical gears are...
• '81 Vanagon Diesel, small gears
  Historical mailing list - Wiebo Troost
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 21:31:42 -0600
  ...Does anyone know whether it is possible to change to a four speed gearbox with a higher ratio, or a five speed? What are...
• Re: Timing Chains, Belts, Gears, etc
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:46:23 -0600
  > is there any reason why engines have not had meshed gears >> to drive the cams. Remember when the Beetle was starting to take off...
• van sputters upon acceleration
  Historical mailing list - Meiborg, John R
  Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:48:34 -0800
  Help! My '89 Syncro sputters when I accellerate in a new gear, or after coasting in any gear. Seems to be an electrical problem...
• Re: Timing belt replacement and valve timing in VW gas and Diesel engines
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:30:24 -0700
  Having the cam gear loose on the shaft does simplify the belt installation since then there are only 2 fixed gears to get the...
• Re: 84' Vanagon starter falling apart
  Historical mailing list - Tobias Gogolin
  Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:59:31 -0800
  ...gear is supposed to be spinning? I don't think mine would ever recede! I'm concerned that the torque spinning a little gear...
• Re: Weddle Engineering
  Historical mailing list - BobKat
  Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:52:16 -0600
  ...My opinion, anytime you change gearing for a specific application, you need to take into consideration several things: weight of your vehicle, driving style...
• Re: Manual transmission gear oil questions
  Historical mailing list - John McLean
  Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:11:22 -0700
  ...I believe the 85/140 gear oil is Valvoline > synthetic or semi-synthetic. Is this a new weight/type of gear oil that > would...
• Re: transmission? - whiring sound w/clutch pedal
  Historical mailing list - tp
  Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:30:26 +0100
  ...The > noise is most pronounced when the gear selector is in neutral, but it will > make the noise in gear as well. > > You would...
• Re: aircooled transaxle with 1.6NA diesel (LONG)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:35:42 -0800
  ...http://volksweb.relitech.com/helmut/GEARBOX.HTM The aircooled 091 transmissions all have the same forward gear ratios but different final drive (differential, ring...
• Re: women and standard gearbox
  Historical mailing list - Donna Skarloken
  Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:55:12 -0800
  ...The only thing > I > didn't leave in gear was my Cessna! Other than that we always left our > vehicles parked in gear with...
• Re: .70 4th gear?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:02:47 -0500
  ...5000 rpm in 3rd gear is a little over 60 MPH, so a taller 3rd gear would allow you to downshift into third and...
• Re: ..... Can't get first or second gear.
  Historical mailing list - ANTONY MARSH
  Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:04:18 -0500
  ...Will quickly check hydraulics and adjustable plate under gear stick this morning and the agony will be over. And yes I can get it...
• transmission or clutch troubles - 3 questions...
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sheridan
  Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:17:12 -0400
  ...I will have to turn it off to get it into gear. There is a grinding noise that develops when I am at a...
• Syncro Speedometer Gear
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:30:28 -0400
  Does anyone have a source for the Syncro speedometer gear that goes inside the front diff? Can anyone make one from brass? See here...
• 3rd---->4th gear...Vanagon tranny
  Historical mailing list - Larry Bissell
  Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:44:22 -0400
  I understand that a flaw exists in a specific part of the vanagon tranny between 3rd and 4th gears. Could anyone give me advice...
• Re: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:13:21 +1300
  ...or else you could convert the trans to nonsynchromesh dog-type gears (motorcycles have these, and you only need the clutch for in-gear...
• Re: Diesel final drive ratio?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Mon, 4 May 1998 22:47:19 -0600
  Helmut Zeidler wrote: > > Larry, > > at http://www.relitech.com/helmut/GEARBOX.HTM you will find > a table of gearboxes of all Vangons I know...
• steering gear grease
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:35:51 -0700
  Yo! Since I can't put the *#@!!#@!@! boots back on the steering gear with it on the van, I'm going to pull the...
• Re: 5 speed trans
  Historical mailing list - Todd Hill
  Fri, 19 Feb 1999 04:20:11 EST
  ...replaced the bellhousing and inner CV flanges? And didn't you also have this gearbox's 5th gear swapped to an aftermarket .70 ratio...
• Re: Rebuild tranny with taller 3rd or 4th--yes or no??
  Historical mailing list - Adam Puzerewski
  Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:10:45 -0500
  With your 81 you already have the tallest 4th gear that vw ever put in a air cooled tranny, and I figure you have...
• Re: odometer stopped
  Historical mailing list - Debbie Walters
  Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:17:49 -0400
  ...Chances are the gear that rolls the odometer has wiggled its way out from the gear it connects with. Just push it back in...
• Re: Speed vs rpms w/ AT?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:48:05 -0800
  ...Planetary gear sets have always bent my brain a little. Indulging in some dangerous speculation, but I would THINK that in 3rd gear the...
• Re: 91 vanagon 4 spd to 5 spd gearbox
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:03:01 +1200
  ...The .457 put >fifth in a true overdrive gear, around 400 rpms less, while the .486 is a >four speed with a LOW first...
• Re: Manual transmission grinds when shifted into into 2nd, 3rd gears
  Historical mailing list - John Lavery
  Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:07:04 -0800
  ...Manual transmission grinds when shifted into into 2nd, 3rd > gears > > > > Hello all! > > > > My Vanagon is making a grinding noise when shifted from 1st to...
• Re: '71 single cab that isn't
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Fri, 8 Sep 95 9:08:44 PDT
  I'm under the impression that the ring gear cannot be flipped in 002 and 091 gearboxes the way it can in the bug...
• Re: I lied, and Problems with Ms. Pickle
  Historical mailing list - Marcus Grant
  Wed, 23 Nov 1994 19:05:15 +0000 (GMT)
  [lots of pain deleted] > > In the next day of driving, it got increasingly more difficult to find > first gear, and eventually, even second. On...
• Re: 81 Manual Transmission
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 24 May 2010 21:24:21 -0700
  ...At Lake Superior my 4th gear > stopped its duty. When I bought the van the 4th gear already popped > out whenever I shifted it...
• Re: New Weddle 5 Speed Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Jon VO
  Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:01:33 -0700
  What's nice about the 5sp, and dropping the final drive ratio slightly, is 4th gear now has one going about 53 - 55mph at...
• Re: Redline gear oil
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:53:14 -0700
  ...Redline gear oil On 8/7/09, Bernie <berniej@gmail.com> wrote: > Is 75W90 the right weight for Redline gear oil in the vanagon...
• sewing outdoor gear and clothing
  Historical mailing list - Joe Federici
  Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:07:04 -0400
  ...I own a Vanagon and sew and I know there are others who like to sew their own outdoor clothing and gear. The focus...
• Re: 1st gear shifting problem
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:37:58 -0500
  ...I have an '89 Sycro and am having problems shifting into first gear. All the other gears are fine (I am using the low...