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• Parts To Make the 1.9 NA Diesel a Turn-Key
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:32:47 -0800
  ...fit), 3) water pump, 4) alternator, 5) injector pump, 6) all gears/pulleys for the timing belt, 7) injectors, and 8) oil filter flange...
• Manually shifting an auto-tranny
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:51:47 -0500
  ...For the past two weeks or so, I've taken to dropping the selector into first, and manually going thru the gears from there...
• Tranny swap: All Forward Gears too High.
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:04:24 -0800
  ...reverse fine, BUT all forward gears feel like 4th gear. "H" feels the same as before swap. I'm just about certain flanges/input...
• Re: distributor spring
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:16:57 -0500
  Distributor gears and their matching counterpart of matching gears on the VW / Vanagon engine are slant cut gears. This type of gear can cause...
• If you've fixed your odometer, read on.
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:59:57 -0800
  ...can manipulate the gears, reset the mileage to what my own van has and apply the cement to affix the gears to their respective...
• Re: Limited Vanagon content: using reverse running transaxles
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:08:24 -0600
  ...Just concerned about the helical gears. The strait cut reverse gear >could care less which way it turns, but I think helical gears are...
• gaaring question for Todd
  Historical mailing list - R.Joseph Murphy
  Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:10:41 -0700
  ...What is done is to try and duplicate the flexibility of the true 5-speed but with only 4 gears. Its not a 5...
• Uh-Oh! Tranny or Shift Linkage?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:29:09 -0500
  ...All other gears are fine, including downshifting. Do the easy stuff first, right? cleaned & lubed the linkage box just under the shift lever (it...
• Re: Syncro Automatic??
  Historical mailing list - Ronald Michaels
  Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:40:30 -0500
  ...Unless the gearset is 1:1, matching the front and rear gear ratios could require another set of gears. A third method would be...
• Re: WBX Transmission: Failing 3-4 Hub Feels Like?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:42:46 -0700
  ...Now the reverse lights stay on in all gears or neutral. I'm getting really fed up. Hope it's just a failed switch...
• Re: 4 speed shift problems
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:26:55 -0600
  The only thing I have seen effect all gears as you are mentioning is if the clutch/throw out bearing was not functioning correctly...
• 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...
• WANTED: Syncro tranny core or ring/pinion
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:56:09 -0400
  I need a good Syncro ring and pinion gearset (4.86 ratio), or complete rebuildable tranny. Anyone have either? P-mail if you can...
• Re: Short shift for 5 speed
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:43:25 -0700
  ...You do have to ' reach ' for the gears1st/reverse, those both require (or prefer) a slight depressing of the gear lever to get 'over...
• Re: Automatic Transaxle w/ Diesel?
  Historical mailing list - Bryan Belman
  Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:24:43 -0700
  ...on gear ratia for each of the 3 gears in your auto trans. This will most likely not be a good idea unless you...
• Shifting problems -- pilot bearing?
  Historical mailing list - Rick Cooper
  Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:20:19 -0700
  ...Initially had problems finding gears, but much of that was sorted out by following the Bentley's shift linkage adjustment procedure. However, the biggest...
• Re: aircooled transaxle with 1.6NA diesel
  Historical mailing list - Steven Denis
  Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:37:11 EST
  ...Can they just be > exchanged and have all the mountings line up? Yes yes yes! the cases are all different and gears are different...
• Re: transmission R and P's
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Zeidler
  Mon, 4 May 1998 13:28:21 +0300
  Patrick, For the third and forth gear you will get special long rated gears. They are supposed to be used on high powered engines...
• Re: [Re: whine?]
  Historical mailing list - Joe Fortino
  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:50:44 MST
  sorry for cross posting on this thread, but my vans noise is coming from the gears, belts are new, alternator new, water pump/steering...
• Re: 5speed trans for 91 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:27:25 +1200
  ...Ideally you would gear it up with taller aftermarket gears and mainshaft. There are aftermarket gears available; Paul can supply ultrastrong Elephant gears in...
• Re: No gears
  Historical mailing list - GMac999
  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:02:06 -0500
  ...No gears > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > > > One possibility I haven't seen mentioned is the clutch plate coming > > apart so the splined center...
• Odometer Repair-Migrating Shaft
  Historical mailing list - Thomas D. Hanlon
  Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:48:22 -0800
  ...I fastened the "shaft" to an electric drill set at "reverse" to drive those gears which drive the road speed needle, the odometer numbers...
• Re: sticking gears
  Historical mailing list - Tromper
  Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:56:56 -0800
  ...sticking gears Volks, Just got my bus back on the road after an engine swap. It's been sitting for awhile (four months or...
• Manual shifting very difficult.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:20:32 -0600
  ...Happens in reverse, Ist, 2nd and 4th gears. Suggestions? John.
• Re: Fuel consumption in different gears - how does the energy / fuel, work?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Jones
  Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:38:05 -0400
  Sorry but the tabs got messed up, so the columns are not clean. See the raw data at http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/ScanGaugeTest...
• Backup light switch malfunction - blinking backup lights when shifting
  Historical mailing list - email99
  Sun, 9 Nov 2008 21:01:26 -0500
  ...It seems the backup lights blink on while shifting gears and will remain on when in 3rd or 4th gear if I pull gently...
• clutch issue or hydraulics issue
  Historical mailing list - Jimmy Johnston
  Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:08:16 -0500
  ...Last night when driving, it was a real struggle to get into 1st and 2nd second gears when the van was running. I had...
• Re: Gearshift lever broken, looking for replacement
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:21:19 -0500
  ...Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com Andy Stalick wrote: > Today my gearshift lever broke off in my hand. > > None of the usual...
• Re: Timing Belts
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 4 Dec 94 11:02:10 PST
  ...Gasoline buses/vanagons/bugs all have "underhead" camshafts with push rods and use gears to drive them. They do not have timing belts. The...
• Re: unlimited Vanagon Syncro/Audi Quattro trans swap budget
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:12:42 -0600
  ...Third and fourth gears >in a Beetle take the same syncro ring and those gears face each >other on the mainshaft, therefore, the gear...
• Re: Gene Berg Short shift/extension kit
  Historical mailing list - Peter Cassidy
  Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:15:42 +0100
  >On Thursday rec'd and installed this kit, extends the lever up to a more >natural position and reduces the distance between gears. Next...
• Battery light on in park or neutral
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 8 Mar 2022 14:35:59 -0600
  ...It's off in any drive gears. Any idea about why this is happening? Thanks
• Speedometer Clicking!
  Historical mailing list - Reynold Woodall
  Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:57:40 -0400
  ...Tried lubing some of th gears inside - no difference.1 Any ideas what this could be? Reynold
• Re: '86 4-speed Westy won't move: Worn out clutch or broken transmission?
  Historical mailing list - James Kim
  Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:18:29 -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: Gearshift lube job
  Historical mailing list - STEPHANIE WOLZ
  Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:12:23 -0700
  ...COM> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: Re: Gearshift lube job The shift bushing above the gas tank is where you...
• 86 westie Gear shift Q's
  Historical mailing list - Dave T. Richards
  Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:49:04 -0500
  OK Does any one have a foolproof procedure for adjusting the shift lever I have just had new clutch installed and changing gears is...
• auto tranny noise
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:47:21 -0700
  ...Is it normal to hear a fairly distinct noise as you approach a stop and it shifts into lower gears? Thanks. Jerry
• Re: 1985 Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:03:29 -0400
  I suspect your timing gears are not timed correctly.If you took it apart,did you change this?Try moving the distributor timing alot...
• Re: [Q] Decreasing gear ratio
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Sun, 22 Jan 95 18:22:03 PST
  ...Apparently there were four versions of this > tranny, with normal and mountain gears, with and without limited slip. > I examined my case and it...
• gears stuck
  Historical mailing list - Nicole Constandis
  Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:01:41 -0700
  ...basically, it was nearly impossible to run through the gears and although it was a nice anti-theft device, it needed to be more...
• Re: Possible aaz/ turbo diesel source?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:53:35 -0700
  ...500 rpm or so. > Very noticeable in the lower gears , not so much higher gears. > > the engine itself though .........all new, all german, and...
• Re: Decisions, decisions which conversion-didn't intend to start a power war
  Historical mailing list - Hans Achter
  Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:58:53 -0400
  ...You can run the subaru conversion all day long with stock gears just like the Zetec conversion without problem, so don't treat it...
• Re: Manual shifting very difficult.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:28:51 -0600
  ...Happens in reverse, > > Ist, 2nd and 4th gears. > > > > Suggestions? > > > > John. > >
• Great Job Guys!!
  Historical mailing list - Ric Golen DIGEST
  Fri, 18 Jul 1997 06:41:58 -0400
  ...Chris and Ron.....great job guys!!! Now all I have to do is to switch gears and stop typing "@lenti.med.umn.edu"....... Ric
• Suddenly it won't ...
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:08:40 -0800
  ...It also grinds gears in very cold mornings. What is the reason? Can it be still saved with some special oil? Zoltan
• Transmission FAQ From Germany Machine Translated
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:57:18 -0500
  ...On the shafts are so-called fixed gears and lot gears. All gears are constant in the interference. During the gearshift selection a connection...
• Re: Odo/Trip Counter
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:24:35 -0400
  ...The first thing that happens when you push the reset button is >that it moves a row of linking gears away from the counting...
• Re: [shifting woes]
  Historical mailing list - john schaper
  Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:43:08 PDT
  ...other gears work fine, but the > shifter seems stiff, and the gears are in slightly different locations. > any ideas what to look at first...
• Re: 5 speeds, was: Noisy transaxle??
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:08:17 -0500
  ...There is no pushing down to engage any gears, just click click click. Mine was rebuilt 100K miles ago and shifts very smoothly and...
• Idle Problem & Shifting Gears
  Historical mailing list - Georgios A. Stylianides, PhD
  Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:04:58 -0400
  ...When changing gears from 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to 4th performance drops. Actually, changing from 2nd to 3rd, it feels like changing from...
• Re: [Q] Decreasing gear ratio
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 22 Jan 95 00:03:09 -0700
  ...Apparently there were four versions of this tranny, with normal and mountain gears, with and without limited slip. I examined my case and it...
• Re: Steering Locks
  Historical mailing list - UTORInfoCommons
  Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:14:15 -0400
  ...Both steering locks and gearshift locks were available. I am unaware of steering locks being repro'ed (they can still be found at swap...
• Re: Wheddle Engineering Lower Low Gear
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:27:00 -0500
  ...The drive gear on the input shaft can not be practical to make smaller and there is no room to make the other gears...
• Re: resurface flywheel?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:48:23 -0800
  ...I've had my original '65 flywheel now through three clutches and one resurfacing and two ring gears. Those old inertial starters are murder...
• sounds of doomed tranny?
  Historical mailing list - Art McGinn
  Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:11:07 -0800
  ...the van spends most its time in lower gears, in the city and it's the original transaxle with 134,000 on it. i...
• Lubricating the linkage
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Aycock
  Sat, 4 Jun 94 11:49:06 CDT
  ...We's running good now, but I just noticed that there's a squeaking when I shift gears.. What do I lube for this...
• Tranny
  Historical mailing list - Lebron,Nathan
  Tue, 04 Mar 97 07:43:00 E
  Has anyone ever tried to replace the automatic tranny in a Vanagon? Perhaps with a non-Vanagon tranny with four gears instead of three...
• transaxle 091 /1 needed
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:13:50 -0500
  -------------------------- Hi All, I am in need of a rebuildable 091 /1 86-91 2wd transaxle or specifically the ring and pinion gears. I live...
• Re: F: Warning!!! Check Your Gearshift!!! (couldn't wait (I BET!))
  Historical mailing list - Ronald Gregory Smithers
  Tue, 14 May 2002 02:24:03 EDT
  In a message dated 5/13/02 4:28:04 PM, gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM writes: << >>>>>>>>All in good humor... >>>>>> >> mango, I thought life...
• woodruff key removal?
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:34:45 -0700
  What is the easiest/best way to remove that woodruff key holding those gears on the crankshaft on? Thanks, -Damon ===== '84 Westy (Sparky) '65...