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• Re: Transmission job in San Diego-
  Historical mailing list - Todd Hill
  Sun, 31 Jan 1999 20:19:48 EST
  wigley@SAN.RR.COM writes: << Well it's time to bite the bullet and have that transmission redone. >> Keep us informed Neil on how...
• Re: transmission worries
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:52:17 EDT
  Marty--sounds more like a pilot bearing failure than an internal transmission problem. You can see almost imediately by pulling the trans and looking...
• 1991 Vanagon Transmission
  Historical mailing list - Gary Ryan
  Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:53:06 -0700
  Does anyone know of a 5 speed transmission that could be modified to fit in a 1991 Vanagon with the priginal Wassbox engine? Gary...
• Automatic Transmission
  Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
  Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:36:45 -0800
  I'm looking for local referals (Seattle area) on automatic transmissions. The auto tranny in my '90 is giving some signs that it is...
• Re: Transmission/gear lube
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:33:39 -0700
  ...Transmission/gear lube Heavy loads are harder on the clutch than the transmission. I've been a longtime fan of Red Line MT-90...
• missing '86 table support
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Gies
  Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:01:50 -0500
  ...If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender and destroy the original transmission, attachments, and destroy any hard copies.
• Re: (Diesel) transmission / stuck in gear
  Historical mailing list - Joel
  Tue, 6 May 2003 20:11:40 -0500
  The same thing happened to me- in my case I took off the nose cone end of the transmission where the shifter rod goes...
• Re: Transmission swap problems: 86 tranny onto 83 engine.
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:56:15 -0800
  ...Mark Rick Cooper wrote: >> On 5 Jan , 2016, at 12:03 PM, Rick Cooper wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to replace the manual transmission in...
• Re: When things gor real bad.
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:57:42 -0400
  ...My transmission guy told me that this diff had suffer way before I put that tranny in. Whatever, we have rebuilt the diff completely...
• Automatic transmission, WTF?
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:43:47 -0400
  ...So, who the heck designs an automatic transmission that, when the pedal is to the floor, kicks down to 2nd at 45 and back...
• Re: Can transmisson be rebuilt?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Johnson
  Tue, 25 Jun 96 10:22 CDT
  ...The owner says that he pulled a car with the bus and the transmission locked up. He put it on jack stands. The drivers...
• SVX-powered crewcab pickup blows trans
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 7 May 2002 21:34:00 +1200
  ...But the owner made the mistake to keep the stock transmission. On the second turn on the ring, he blew the transmission. The case...
• Looking for Auto Tranny
  Historical mailing list - Dan Wohlers
  Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:41:31 -0700
  Hello Volks, I am in need of an automatic transmission for a 1985 Vanagon Westy. I was wondering if anyone out there has one...
• 5 Speed Mounting Bracket
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:35:27 -0700
  Does anyone out there in Vanagon-land have a transmission bracket for a WBXer 2WD 5-speed transmission? Not the rubber mount, the bracket...
• Vanagon Engine/Transmission Removal Websites?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:14:38 +0000
  Hi, It looks like I'll finally be able to drop the engine and transmission in my 87 Westy this weekend. Are there any...
• Re: 84 Vanagon Transmission NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:04:06 -0500
  ...84 Vanagon Transmission NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This does bring up an interesting issue--where does one go for good transmissions for Vanagons. If you can't...
• Re: Vanagon auto tranny lifespan (is alot longer than the manual tranny's)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 1 May 2001 21:04:29 EDT
  ...the 4spd manual transmissions ALL suffer what is known as the 3/4 gear slider hub crack syndrome, sooner or later. when that happens...
• Re: Automatic transmission, WTF?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:33:30 -0700
  re So, who the heck designs an automatic transmission that, when the > pedal is to the floor, kicks down to 2nd at 45 and...
• Re: Needed Automatic Transmission
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:28:12 -0800
  ...nee turbovans > > On 12/14/2014 12:54 PM, Jean-Woo Kim wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My friend Robert's 85 Westy automatic transmission is...
• All people needing automatic transmission parts for VW's
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Fri, 27 May 2005 19:49:08 -0700
  http://www.bulkpart.com/ this is where you will find the parts for the automatic transmission and the gearbox.. Phil __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired...
• Re: Manual or AT?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:48:12 -0400
  ...Mike '84 GL 7 pass '85 GL Westy > Hi Scott > > I am more a manual transmission guy than a auto transmission. My wife was...
• Transmission main shaft for air-cool 1983 vanagon ( 091 300 043 KX)
  Historical mailing list - Christophe Guilbert
  Sun, 5 Feb 2017 12:06:45 -0800
  Hi Guys , I has been several months now that my transmission is in the shop idling , I've been told that I need a...
• Re: Clutch Cross Shaft Arm Wear. Abnormal? PICS
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:36:25 -0700
  On Apr 5, 2010, at 3:45 PM, neil n wrote: > > As for transmission additive, no Prolong, but when I asked the same > employee...
• Re: Automatic transmission, WTF?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:01:43 -0700
  On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, who the heck designs an automatic transmission that...
• VW GOlf question (no Vanagon content)
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:54:44 -0400
  ...from the manual transmission Golf. I'm a bit conserned that this motor may not be the same as the manual transmission engine. For...
• reliability of Vanagon automatic transmission ?
  Historical mailing list - Dave L
  Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:33:36 -0400
  I've got an appointment to look at an 88 Vanagon with an automatic transmission tonight. It's got 83,000 miles on the...
• Re: Engine Ground voltage drop under load, please help diagnose.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:17:58 +0000
  ...So the main culprit seems to be the connection between the transmission front mounting and the transmission itself. I removed the transmission front mounting...
• Transmission fluid change - 1991 4 spd
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Sat, 27 Aug 2016 18:06:02 -0600
  ...I don't have any maintenance records indicating the transmission fluid has been changed and I'm coming up on 300,000 km. I...
• Re: Transmission woes...
  Historical mailing list - Pat Dooley
  Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:05:51 -0400
  To respond to Joe's transmission needs, or anybody else's, I have a transmission from an 84 westy that seems to be in...
• Re: Difficulty / time to replace clutch - 1991 Westfalia 2WD
  Historical mailing list - Jim. Felder
  Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:17:57 -0600
  ...Best of all and fairly easy is dropping engine and transmission together by loosening the moustach bar and the front transmission mount—plus the...
• Re: A transmission question
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:54:07 +0100
  ...A transmission question > Hi all: > > I'm going to pull the transmission and engine from my newly-acquired '82 > Westy together. > > While I'm...
• Re: Coolant in my automatic tranmission fluid...
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:35:18 -0800
  ...Joe On 07 Feb 2003, Mark Dorm wrote: > Okay, so I have coolant in my automatic > transmission, and ATF in my coolant. In my...
• Re: Auto Transmission Fluid Ports
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 2 Mar 2012 04:51:49 -0800
  ...on cooling of automatic transmission > fluid, I am once again indulging my instrumentation fetish, this time by > adding a transmission oil temperature gauge. I...
• Re: transmission change
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 5 Sep 1995 07:05:52 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Can anybody who has changed the > transmission in a bus please pass on any hints or advice, in > particular would you suggest removing the...
• Re: EV Transmission Preference
  Historical mailing list - Drew B. Farenwald
  Wed, 28 May 97 9:19:46 EDT
  ...manual or automatic transmissions? > >(especially in terms of derivability and service.) > > >IMHO, I like automatics, but maybe a manual transmission is the way to...
• syncro transmission vent ?
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:07:33 -0400
  I can't find the vent hose on the transmission. In the Bentley page 35.105 I found where it should be but I...
• Still looking for a 1984 autotransmission. Also I'll have two that could be rebuilt.
  Historical mailing list - VWNut Hawk
  Sat, 3 Aug 2002 17:01:26 -0500
  Wasn't there a posting about who does good jobs on transmission rebuilds. If you're out there please email jhawk@hawkcomputing.com and...
• Re: Can you guys help tell me what part this is?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 5 Oct 2003 20:54:49 -0700
  ...Jim Travers Fenton wrote: >http://www.calaboose.com/vanagon/transmission/transmission.html > > >
• Re: Can you guys help tell me what part this is?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:30:01 -0700
  At 07:23 PM 10/5/2003, you wrote: >http://www.calaboose.com/vanagon/transmission/transmission.html The rubber boot is P/N- 251...
• Re: auto or no auto
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:19:21 EDT
  In a message dated 10/7/03 5:12:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, johnny@JDEVILLA.COM writes: > First off Automatic Transmissions, my wife...
• Re: Porsche automatic transmission in a vanagon? Is it possible?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:17:09 +1300
  There are folks in germany who have fitted Tiptronic transmissions. Any rear-engined Porsche trans can be fitted to a T3. It's a...
• Re: Automatic transmission repair guide
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Tue, 20 May 2003 00:10:41 -0700
  ...Please note that the vanagon >transmission is a two piece unit: the transmission part and the final drive >part. This guide only covers the...
• Re: Shift Lever to Transmission Attachement Question
  Historical mailing list - aatransaxle
  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:33:36 -0800
  ...Shift Lever to Transmission Attachement Question Hi All, Just checking to see if I did this correctly: I recently pulled the Manual Transmission out...
• Re: 1985 GL Automatic transmission issues
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:13:55 -0800
  ...Thank you, Aaron Bright Louisville, KY I know very little about automatic transmissions but the guy who ran the transmission shop across the road...
• Re: 2007 Beetle questions (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:09:15 -0500
  ...Regarding the transmission, it seems to hesitate in first and second before shifting. In surfing the internet I found the following. VW Beetle Transmission...
• Re: Transmission Question
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Sat, 28 Feb 1998 10:14:14 EST
  ...I am concerned about the play in the shaft >coming >out of the transmission. Does anybody know how much play is >appropriate? > >Thanks, > >John...
• Re: Synthetic gear oil recommendations
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:49:51 -0800
  Todd, I have a few questions for you about transmissions. - Do you have experience with Audi transmissions? I am hoping that these might be...
• 2.6 l VS 2.2 l 20 V Transmission
  Historical mailing list - Detlev Hanschke
  Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:58:57 EST
  ...I think you will do a good job and strongen the transmission as well as posible. This is even better when Michael Sullivan goes...
• Porsche automatic transmission in a vanagon? Is it possible?
  Historical mailing list - pedro dos santos
  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:33:12 -0800
  ...My main quest is to find a way to lower as much as possible the RPM for a TDI conversion with an automatic transmission...
• Re: Shifting Problem Redux
  Historical mailing list - Jijm Henry
  Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:36:26 -0500
  I offer this only because it kept an early 70's chrysler auto transmission working for an extra 130k miles. all traditional disclamers apply...
• Any Interest in New Transmission?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:30:29 EDT
  I just bought a brand new Vanagon Transmission. It has a 4.57 Ring and Pinion which is supposed to lower RPMs on the...
• Re: OOOPs! Transmission Leaking after clutch kit installation
  Historical mailing list - Karl M
  Sat, 8 Jun 2002 18:28:16 -0400
  ...Did it leak before? Or was there very little oil in the transmission? > Subject line gives most of the message...I've just installed...
• Re: Engine Transmission removal
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:42:32 -0400
  ...http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Syncro/files/technica/Transmission/ IIRC my sycnro tranny was removed white the van was on an overhead lift...
• Re: Engine Ground voltage drop under load, please help diagnose.
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:27:36 -0300
  ...So the main culprit seems to be the connection between the transmission front mounting and the transmission itself. I removed the transmission front mounting...
• Re: Where to get 84 GL Automatic Transmission rebuilt?
  Historical mailing list - John Hawk
  Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:50:51 -0600
  ...Where to get 84 GL Automatic Transmission rebuilt? Happy Holidays list. A couple of days ago I removed the transmission from my 1984 Vanagon...
• Re: Whining sound from transmission
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:32:01 -0600
  Hi, I recently had some success using a transmission flush product. The one I used is called Sea Foam Trans Tune. I got it...
• Re: ominous sounds from automatic transmission
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:10:50 -0800
  Have CV joints been considered ? I've been involved with two vanagon automatic transmissions that did not work correctly - no, three, come to think...
• Re: 2002 EV Auto Transmission
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:07:50 -0400
  ...It is another couple of hours and the parts with the transmission out. If you don't do it with the tranny out you...
• Re: Automatic Rebuilder
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:04:01 -0600
  Around here, even the VW shops send their Vanagon automatic transmissions to the local franchise transmission shops like AAMCO and Mr Transmission. They seem...
• Re: 87 VW WESTFALIA
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
  ...VERY GOOD >> Oooohhh!!! a "syncromatic automatic transmission"???? I WANT ONE!!! whatever the hell that is..... :<) chris