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• Re: transmission problem - resolved
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 05:07:24 -0600
  ...I lost 1st & 2nd gears with no warning. The shop said that (as I had observed) everything feels & sounds good but no 1st & 2nd...
• Re: Now what have I done.... Flashing oil light??
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:23:22 -0500
  Hi Jim, I swapped the cover plate and both gears from one block to the other. All the gears from the three engines looked...
• re: Good News/ 3rd gears woes
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 15 Dec 1995 03:24:47 -0500
  ...year? A friend had a similar problem, but also the reduction gears lock up as well. Needless to say, this makes driving dangerous? anyone...
• Re: Not able to engage any gear
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 31 May 2011 19:35:36 -0700
  ...Seems that with the motor running makes it not want to go into any gears and the motor off goes easily into all the...
• Re: unlimited Vanagon Syncro/Audi Quattro trans swap budget
  Historical mailing list - Pat
  Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:53:37 -0500
  ...When torque is applied to the gears *attached* to the main and pinion shaft a load pushing outward in a radial pattern would result...
• Re: Need speedo for 87 westy--speedo problems
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:41:46 -0700
  ...There are *no* gears in most speedometers, including the VW Vanagon one. The several gears in there are only for the odometer. Look for...
• Re: Crazy idea?
  Historical mailing list - Ralph Meyermann
  Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:14:27 -0500
  ...gruengeist@gmail.com> wrote: > Completely nutz > > http://www.partshp.com/speedometer_gears.htm > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jul 28, 2014, at 6:21...
• Re: Anyone want my 92 Vanagon V6 TDI?
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:15:10 +0200
  ...Remove the three gears and use two gears with the same ratio: Viola, the diff spins backwards. That�s all. Two gears and a...
• Re: Help, stranded. Van won't exceed 55mph
  Historical mailing list - -- Dan Roberts
  Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:28:06 -0500
  ...This hesitation eventually occurred in all 4 gears although, for about 20 minutes, I could drive at 4000RPMs in lower gears. Eventually, all gears...
• Re: '86 4-speed Westy won't move: Worn out clutch or broken transmission?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:29:45 -0800
  ...But he could drive around in the underground parking lot with occasional grinding and crunching of the gears through all the gears. Yesterday he...
• Re: shifting anomaly...
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:16:06 -0700
  ...but if the trans oil level is low then it would affect other gears too... or only the 1st gear? thanks
• Re: Strongest STOCK Waterboxer tranny
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:40:54 -0700
  ...the 7/34 gears are a lot > quieter and > smoother. He also said that these gears cost a lot more than the > 6/29...
• Re: 914 trans in a bus?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 9 May 95 09:56:41 bst
  ...It sure would be nice to have a 5th gear, and closer ratios (I'm >>assuming with 5 gears the ratios would be closer...
• approx price for tranny upgrade
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Tue, 5 Jan 1999 19:45:57 -0500
  thnks for the info about the spider gears. > ratios. The closest I can get is a 3.78 X 2.21 instead of > the...
• Reverse Lights
  Historical mailing list - Jason M. Yasment
  Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:12:22 -0500
  ...It seems while rowing through the gears with the ignition switch on will turn the lights on in first, third and fourth gears. What...
• Re: On Transmission Ratios, Diesels, Conversions and Fish
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:14:43 -0400
  How about chunching some numbers with the auto transmission gears, so a few of us won't feel left out? Hector
• Odometer/ tripometer broken
  Historical mailing list - Ry L Blaisdell
  Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:12:34 -0500
  Does anyone else have problems with the gears in the vanagon odometer sliping out of alignment? If so has someone got a good solution...
• Re: Rebuilding Man. Tranny-Questions regarding taller gears??
  Historical mailing list - Matthew
  Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:58:47 -0800
  putting in a taller 4th is much cheaper than a new 5-speeed tranny! assuming you need a rebuild anyways. mp
• Re: 5 speeds, was: Noisy transaxle??
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:02:48 -0700
  There is no way to make 4 gears as useful as 5 for a non-tdi diesel. Spreading out 4 gears to cover the...
• Shifter came unbolted from floor
  Historical mailing list - Ian Stewart
  Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:13:56 -0700
  ...The shift lever is still securely bolted to the linkage, but the nuts that secure the shift-lever housing and the lower gearshift mechanism...
• Re: transmission problem - resolved
  Historical mailing list - Dake Collins
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 03:41:10 -0700
  ...I lost 1st & 2nd gears with no warning. The shop said that (as I had observed) everything feels & sounds good but no 1st & 2nd...
• Re: Odometer stopped
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:53:45 -0300
  ...What happened on mine was NOT a broken gear but rather the spindle (around which the gears rotate) had come out at one end...
• Re: symptoms of a failing clutch
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:03:04 +0000
  ...In the last few >days I've had to floor the clutch pedal in order to shift gears. The >gears engage when I release...
• Re: Fuel consumption in different gears - how does the energy / fuel work?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:27:00 -0700
  ...Fuel consumption in different gears - how does the energy / fuel work? ---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote: I think the total energy to actually...
• Re: Shifting issue
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:36:58 -0400
  ...I can shift through all >the gears forward and back except for 4th. Once I go from 3rd to 4th it >doesn't want...
• Re: Mechanical Geniuses please note! (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Sun, 7 Aug 2005 12:45:38 -0400
  I wasn't sure exactly what dimensions you needed, but here is the solution I would like to present. (attached as Reduction-gearset.jpg)
• Re: 85 spedo repair
  Historical mailing list - Richard Lamoreaux
  Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:04:20 +0000
  ...The gears were not broken, but just out of > place. I pushed the assembly to the right and gears were engaging > just fine. Put...
• website recommendations + 85 Vanagon gearshift issues
  Historical mailing list - AAG - Larry Word
  Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:02:44 -0400
  ...my wife driving my vanagan, getting mad at its old, long gearshift linkage and destroying the bushings. My trans. is OK just the linkage...
• Re: reverse running Audi transaxles
  Historical mailing list - Todd Hill
  Sun, 22 Nov 1998 23:24:24 EST
  ...Just concerned about the helical gears. The strait cut reverse gear could care less which way it turns, but I think helical gears are...
• Re: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:49:09 -0500
  ...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: Frankenshifter
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:04 -0500
  ...Frankenshifter > Well -- > > I ground that weld down to the diameter of the shifter rod, cleaned > and greased all the gearshift pivot parts, and put...
• Re: 85 spedo repair
  Historical mailing list
  02 Dec 96 08:58:40 PST
  ...Hard to find unbroken gears at wreckers. Sometines split gears are still in the housing and are gluable. Can get discount on broken instrument...
• Re: 83.5 Trans grinds into reverse?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Bulley
  Sat, 6 Sep 1997 08:01:30 -0400
  ...But like I said the forward gears work fine. Finally, I didn't adjust the clutch. But if it were a clutch adjustment problem...
• FS:Tranny-core b.o. Vanagon88Auto2.1L
  Historical mailing list - Theo Burtick
  Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:54:20 -0500
  Tranny & Diff dismantled (in a box) Some differential gears worn out due to low oil level Core in good condition Theo Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
• SA 5-speed transmission question
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:11:35 -0700
  ...gearsets? The reason I am asking is, I figured that if this is so, I could use the front transmission mount, and the gearshift...
• Re: your opinion please - part 2
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Mon, 7 Jun 1999 02:01:56 EDT
  ...it didn't and you stepped on the clutch to change gears the engine would rev out of control,It is easy to ck...
• Re: Travel Emergency: 4sp Manual Shifting Problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:21:18 -0400
  ...I have also seen the 1-2 shift plate break off the pin rendering those gears useless. Either way tranny coming out. Dennis -----Original...
• Re: trip odometer - problem solved?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 21 Nov 94 19:49:05 PST
  ...Surprisingly, all of the cogs and gears seemed to be intact. The gears were sticking, though. So we turned them several times and then...
• Wheddle Engineering Lower Low Gear
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:20:20 -0500
  The folks at Wheddle Engineering have offered to perform a feasibility study on manufacturing new lower low gears for the creeper gear in Syncros...
• Re: 3spd auto to 4spd AUTO conversion
  Historical mailing list - Sean Birkner
  Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:23:34 EDT
  ...I still want it to be automatic, I just want 4 gears instead of 3.
• Re: Troubled with my Westy 1988 clutch slave cylinder
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Thu, 1 Jun 2017 21:57:32 +0000
  ...Hard to shift into gears > after sitting at a stop light in town with the manual tranny in 1st gear > then others gears as...
• RE: Gearing Calculator
  Historical mailing list - Scott Allred
  Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:02:31 -0700
  ...find out what size tires the factory > 6.13 > gear ratio gears would cause us to purchase to have the van have the > same...
• Re: Diesel Vanagon Questions
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:13:58 -0700
  ...That's one > reason why the gears are so "low". They are really designed for a > narrow spectrum of RPMs...in trucks, they add...
• Re: Cleavis pin fixed, but now....!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Tue, 11 Jun 1996 16:45:15 -0700
  ...The problem is, when the >>motor is OFF I do not have to press the clutch pedal to switch gears. >>When the motor is...
• <syncro/all> setting up R+P gears
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:48:57 -0300 (ADT)
  ...I did not disturb the pinion setting at all in the front, BUT had to swap ring gears on the diff carrier to maintain...
• Re: '86 4-speed Westy won't move: Worn out clutch or broken transmission?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:54:31 +0000
  ...But he > could drive around in the underground parking lot with occasional grinding > and crunching of the gears through all the gears. Yesterday he...
• My Transmission has a hole in it!!!
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:01:34 -0700
  ...Looking at the Bentley illustration on 35.6 it shows the inside of the gearshift housing and there looks to be some sort of...
• Re: No gears
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:06:39 -0700
  ...No gears I have seen air get into the clutch hydraulics. Sit up for a while and the seals shrink. After a couple of...
• Re: Tranny
  Historical mailing list - Tobin Copley
  Mon, 15 May 2000 16:27:02 -0700
  ...I was told it was a 5 speed but I have 6 forward >gears. Are you *sure?* *SIX* forward gears?!? That would be so...
• Re: Gearshift lever broken, looking for replacement
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:49:59 -0500
  Andy Stalick <andystalick@GMAIL.COM> writes: > Today my gearshift lever broke off in my hand. Mine did the same thing about a year ago...
• SV: Unprecise gearshift on Caravelle Bus 1982
  Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
  Mon, 24 May 2004 10:00:38 +0200
  ...Unprecise gearshift on Caravelle Bus 1982 Jens wrote: "The support "stick" for the end of the gearshift rod, has a small plastic ring, that...
• Re: Electric Supercharger
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:08:08 +1300
  ...and the pump itself can drive the air by using gears, vanes, interlocking screws (Lysholm chargers, the best), turbines, centrifugal fan, heck, even a...
• Re: Help, stranded. Van won't exceed 55mph
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:27:31 -0700
  ...This hesitation > eventually occurred in all 4 gears although, for about 20 minutes, I could > drive at 4000RPMs in lower gears. Eventually, all gears...
• Re: Transaxle - Movement of Gear Shifter Normal?
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Thu, 24 May 2001 19:33:05 EDT
  ...I, too, had noticeable shifting of the gearshift lever on one of my Syncro's. When I replaced every bit of plastic and rubber...
• Re: VANAGON TRANNY
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 27 Jun 1997 17:34:59 -0400
  ...It slides into gear OK although it doesn't feel as smooth as the other gears. However, sometimes, at irregular intervals, it doesn't...
• Re: Ring and pinion ratio on 5 spds...
  Historical mailing list - travis dick
  Wed, 27 May 1998 21:10:48 -0700
  ...I want big gears, big teeth, that will stand the constant > force of a hard punch to the pedal. The ratio is important. The...
• Transmission question
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:12:00 -0700
  Is it possible to get gearsets for the 4-speed Vanagon transmission in different than stock ratios? I'd sure like to have a...
• Re: [DIESEL] RE: Question about HAMMERING, new 1.9l NA motor,today
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:29:23 -0700
  Both the 1.9 and 1.6 pump gears are different, and the timing belts are different. The 1.9 block is taller. -Dana-
• Re: NEW VANAGON!! and how do I clean the interior?
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:21:27 -0700
  ...The plastic in front of the gearshift is VERY easily broken. Watch out! Rachel http://www.gnarlodious.com
• noisy shifting
  Historical mailing list - Bill MacLachlan
  Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:43:11 -0800
  ...I'm getting a lot of noise when shifting- all gears. Comes and goes a bit, but it always comes back. Sounds like the...