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• Re: '56 kombi update - new transmission
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 01 Jan 1995 10:37:23 -0400 (EDT)
  Thom, there's something in the back of my mind that says the bolt pattern on the torsion arms where the reduction boxes bolt...
• Re: Splittie Reduction Box Trauma
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Tue, 14 May 1996 16:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
  ...all the bolts but ONE fell out of the driver side reduction > box/swingarm assembly. I got under there last night to install a...
• axles r off...
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:01:25 EST
  ...Got the bearings in the reduction boxes out. And tapped out the axles from there tubes. From there it was a piece of cake...
• Re: Splittie Reduction Box Trauma
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Tue, 14 May 1996 16:28:34 MST
  ...Richard is looking around for a good reduction box as we speak so that he can just lose his current one. - Mike White [Mail...
• Re: new driveshafts for raised vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:10:16 -0700
  ...they do not have to be 'reduction' gear boxes either .....they can be 1 to 1 ratio .. or even 'gear up' boxes.. furthermore .. while...
• Re: Buses FS (CT/MA/NY Area)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:44:23 -0800
  ...Getting parts for the reduction boxes is getting a bit hard, tho'. malcolm
• Re: Has anyone on the list dealt with German Transaxle of America?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Freeman
  Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:33:03 -0800
  I had my Syncro tranny and my Barndoor reduction boxes done by Gary Zink of Gary's Transaxles in Kent WA. Most local mechanics...
• Re: Loose as a Goose
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:38:06 -0700
  Mike White said: >Again, the stupid bolts that hold the gear reduction box to the rear >swing-arm have come loose! VanBondo sez: Replacement...
• Re: Adapting reduction gear boxes to later IRS
  Historical mailing list - Todd Hill
  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:29:01 EST
  ...proper direction, but would give a gear reduction.>> I build a few of these early redux box setups each month and have wondered myself...
• Re: '56 kombi update - new transmission
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 1 Jan 1995 22:14:05 -0800 (PST)
  >there's something in the back of my mind that says the bolt pattern >on the torsion arms where the reduction boxes bolt up...
• Re: Splittie Reduction Box Trauma
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 15 May 1996 02:03:53 -0400
  my solution to stripped threads in the gear boxes is to buy a thread tap and larger bolts. take a nice bolts into your...
• Using reduction boxes (was: Limited Vanagon content: using reverse running transaxles
  Historical mailing list - Pat
  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:02:43 -0500
  ...The early buses used them, why can't we? This would change the drive to the proper direction, but would give a gear reduction...
• Re: location of "load reduction relay"
  Historical mailing list - Tracy Bonin
  Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:40:12 -0800
  ...of little square plug boxes. These are the relays. I think the 2nd one in is the load reduction relay. They just pull out...
• Re: Splittie Reduction Box Trauma
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 May 1996 13:17:05 -0500
  ...all the bolts but ONE fell out of the driver side reduction >> box/swingarm assembly. I got under there last night to install a...
• Re: Doka Look Alike (friday reply)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:35:14 -0700
  ...so if you do need to put a Bug Transalxe ( without gear reduction boxes ) into a Bus .. where you have them.. you can split...
• Load Reduction Relay/X-Contact Info
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:40:01 -0500
  Looking for a basic primer on the Load Reduction Relay and the X-contact ignition switch. How does they act when the go bad...
• Re: Good Bye - Traded Westy for Kia (F)
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:13:12 EST
  ...Then came the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back....the reduction boxes >> ha ha ha :<) those aircooled waterboxers sure are a pain...
• Re: Raise the rear
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 6 Dec 94 10:21:16 gmt
  ...be prohibitive). > I've never tried it on a bus with reduction boxes, but on bay-window buses (and beetles) it is an easy...
• speedo cable
  Historical mailing list - John McLean
  Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:35:13 -0700
  An option is to open the box and remove the second reduction gear. This will transform the box into nothing more than a connecting...
• Re: Load Reduction Relay: what's it do?
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:31:52 -0500
  ...Load Reduction Relay: what's it do? > jeff, > I'm not sure exactly what it does, maybe it's just a little box full...
• axle removal
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:52:41 EDT
  ...have a '65 deluxe) Do I need to split the reduction gear boxes? I have the old unit out and want to swap the...
• Bolts / Re:Dumb as a Goose <correction!>
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:56:50 -0500
  ...Bolts to hold reduction gear boxes to spring plates Axles nuts, 36mm & 42mm Lug nuts up the yin yang brakes sproings etc. etc. etc.
• John Johnson Racing?
  Historical mailing list - charles fladger
  Tue, 18 May 1999 15:41:36 -0700
  ...Does anybody know if John Johnson Racing is still in business? They made a kit to install a Bus reduction box trans in a...
• Re: Swing Axle Bug to bus questions.
  Historical mailing list - JOHNSON THOMAS H
  Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:17:53 -0900 (AKST)
  ...The reductions boxes are UP SIDE DOWN, to make it go foward not 4 > speeds backwards (which would be kewl anyway). So how do...
• Re: Load Reduction Relay: what's it do?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hundt
  Sun, 15 Apr 2001 17:59:21 -0700
  ...171 937 503 > > 1.What does the Load Reduction Relay do? (It's mounted on top of the fuse > box) > > 2. It seems mine...
• Re: Bus top speed, not about spelling!
  Historical mailing list - Michael Ham '64 Type ][
  Sun, 10 Dec 1995 17:07:10 -0800 (PST)
  ...or what? > > Sean With reduction boxes in that '66? I've done that too in a '66 with boxes. 85 that is. Running a...
• '56 kombi update - new transmission
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:09:36 -0800 (PST)
  ...4) the early reduction boxes look exactly like the later ones, on the outside, but the bearings are different sizes and the gears, while...
• '56 kombi update - new transmission
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:14:07 -0800 (PST)
  ...4) the early reduction boxes look exactly like the later ones, on the outside, but the bearings are different sizes and the gears, while...
• Re:Dumb as a Goose <correction!>
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:45:57 -0700
  ***VanBondo stepped on himself when he gave the wrong size of the reduction box/spring plate bolt*** >The correct size should have been 12...
• Splittie Reduction Box Trauma
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Tue, 14 May 1996 15:23:44 MST
  ...all the bolts but ONE fell out of the driver side reduction box/swingarm assembly. I got under there last night to install a...
• Re: A/C 4-position fan speed selector problem
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:47:31 -0500
  ...Placing a load reduction relay in the rear for the compressor clutch helped protect the switch. I found the rather large current draw of...
• Re: transmission change
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Sykes
  Tue, 5 Sep 1995 15:30:21 BST
  ...If it is early, do ya have the reduction boxes on the new tranny? Thom > Sorry, I should have mentioned this in my original...
• Re: New SYNCRO van wanted
  Historical mailing list - Lee Peterson
  Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:10:45 -0800
  Look at the second to last pic, it has reduction boxes like an old type 2. > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon...
• Bug-In Stuff For Sale / Question
  Historical mailing list - charles fladger
  Mon, 16 Aug 1999 07:44:16 -0700
  ...Also, does anybody know if John Johnson racing is still in business? They make the kits to put a Bus reduction box trans in...
• Re: A/C 4-position fan speed selector problem
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Cresawn
  Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:08:46 -0700
  ...Placing a > load reduction relay in the rear for the compressor clutch helped > protect the switch. > > I found the rather large current draw of...
• Load Reduction Relay: what's it do?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey R
  Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:07:25 EDT
  ...171 937 503 1.What does the Load Reduction Relay do? (It's mounted on top of the fuse box) 2. It seems mine...
• Fuel & Temp gauge full scale
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:26:50 -0700
  ...I pulled the fuse box down and ditzeled with fuses and relays until I noticed the ground wire loose. Reattached ground wire and had...
• Re: Review of Bus Boys
  Historical mailing list - Douglas
  Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:59:28 -0700
  ...sellers i've encountered. > > jonathan FWIT BusBoys was able to bail my butt out when I needed a reduction box for my '61. Douglas
• Help!! '67 transmission
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Aug 94 15:19:13 EDT
  ...BTW, the reduction boxes are fine. thanks Richard
• Re: Tranny Oil Question '66 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Wed, 15 May 1996 16:56:15 -0700
  ...First of all, is this something I Yes, and do the reduction boxes, too. YOu'll need the 17mm hex tool to get the...
• Re: Loose as a Goose
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:10:10 -0500
  ...time in agony >trying to get broken bolts out of the reduction box. I guess that if you >have been driving on loose bolts...
• Re: Bosch #s for a deisel starter? Maybe..
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:47:03 -0700
  ...boxer starter. There are 2 and only 2 diesel starters. Both sold as Bosch SR28X. One is direct drive, the other is gear reduction...
• '54 deluxe progress - more sandblasting
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sat, 09 Mar 1996 19:35:48 -0800
  ...Areas like the reduction boxes and lever shocks cleaned the fastest. Some areas are undercoated heavily, and it takes a while to get all...
• Splitie reduction box trauma, 63-67 manual
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 15 May 1996 22:13:12 -0500
  WA> Friends, WA> Here in the USA, metric taps and dies are harder to come WA>by than good ole' brand X. Faced with...
• Re: aircooled transaxle with 1.6NA diesel
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Thu, 17 Jan 2002 00:28:38 -0800
  ...I think that just as with the Type two ,when VW eliminated the gear reduction boxes in '68 when they also began increasing the...
• Re: new driveshafts for raised vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Phil Zimmerman
  Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:32:34 -0700
  ...AndreasBilder/KurbelgelenkwelleCleanKlein.jpg --------------- Wow, what an improvement over the ol' gear-reduction boxes on the early Busses. I dog-leg VC-Jointaxle� So simple...
• '56 kombi tranny update: day 5/?
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Thu, 5 Jan 1995 08:36:18 -0800 (PST)
  Ok,, Got the side plate put on and the reduction box back together! A brief moment of panic after I got it all bolted...
• Re: transmission change
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 5 Sep 1995 07:05:52 -0700 (PDT)
  ...If it is early, do ya have the reduction boxes on the new tranny? Thom -- > Stop discrimination - hate everyone equally. Thom Fitzpatrick tfab@netcom...
• Re: Load Reduction Relay/X-Contact Info
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:09:37 -0500
  At 03:40 PM 2/27/2002, Jay L Snyder wrote: >Looking for a basic primer on the Load Reduction Relay and the X...
• Off topic parts
  Historical mailing list - John Dorn
  Sun, 16 Jul 2000 02:24:12 -0700
  ...I have a trans and reduction boxes (still in one piece) from a 62; 23 window bus. These parts are still fully functional, but...
• Re: Fuel & Temp gauge full scale
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:18:04 -0400
  ...I pulled the fuse box down and > ditzeled with fuses and relays until I noticed the ground wire loose. > Reattached ground wire and had...
• Re: new driveshafts for raised vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:46:53 -0700
  ...AndreasBilder/KurbelgelenkwelleCleanKlein.jpg > --------------- > Wow, what an improvement over the ol' gear-reduction boxes on the > early Busses. > I dog-leg VC-Jointaxle� So simple...
• Re: IRS Conversions?
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 02 Jun 1996 17:19:46 -0700
  ...I remember though, that by >looking underneath, it had the reduction boxes on it. Now I hear about >these IRS conversions that in effect...
• Re: Doka Look Alike
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:19:02 -0700
  I am familiar with gear reduction boxes in Split window VW Buses.. have worked on those since about '72. but never have heard of...
• Re: Can transmisson be rebuilt?
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Not much can really happen to reduction box gears, since they are pretty much locked together. Bearings go bad, which are not all that...
• Re: buying a used tranny.
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:50:59 -0500
  ...One reduction box had been rebuilt, the other was full of shavings, so i has to pull it off and change it. It also...
• Re: Bolts / Re:Dumb as a Goose <correction!>
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:26:33 -0500
  ...you could have for paying the postage. > >Bolts to hold reduction gear boxes to spring plates > >Axles nuts, 36mm & 42mm > >Lug nuts up the...
• Re: best design feature
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 13 May 2005 15:28:24 -0600
  ...an early bus w/ 36 hp engine w/ reduction gears or even slower, a crash box tranny Barndoor w/ 25 hp engine! The Vanagon...
• Grendel, Tues...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Sep 1995 19:27:56 EST
  ...through on this. (U mean I have to dissassemble those damn reduction boxes, man!). We can not expect these toils to always yield fruition...
• Re: Nuts!...Axle Nuts!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Jul 1996 19:37:11 -0400
  ...Also, is there any chance that all this torking on the axle nut will damage the shaft/reduction box/ or trannie? >> What you want...