Slide that sleeve way back, turn saft counter-clockwise. When installing
new shaft, turn flush, then back off 1 full spline. There has to be some
wobble. The shaft is actually supported by the pilot bearing and the
coupling allows for some alignment error.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Joe Hunt
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 5:02 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Transmission Main Shaft! Help

Volks,

Getting quite frustrated with the simplistic instructions in the Bentley
manual, i.e, remove circlip, slide reverse gear back unscrew shaft.

I have been sliding , and truning both ways in gear, in nuetral,
soetimes
hoding output etc, etc!  no help.

Any body got any tricks to get this thing out, what direction do you
need to
turn shaft to remove, I assume it was normally counterclockwise, its an
Aircooled transmission if it matters,

TIA.............Joe
Omaha