Depending on the price you pay for the van, it may be worthwhile to just put
a new tranny in it.

I believe that they are, or have been made available from the list vendors.

Somehow about $900 to $990 rings a bell.

Marshall Ruskin

>I may have a chance to purchase a 1984 vanagon westy, but it is an
automatic
>and is in need of a rebuild (80,000 miles).  What is the feasibility of
>switching over to a manual transmission?  Any drawbacks?  Would I be better
>off with just having the automatic transmission rebuilt? Any input the
>collective wisdom of this list can provide would be helpful.
>