If you know someone who is good with this sort of thing, you may be able to
drill out that bolt (or actually, stud) and remove it with an easy-out.
Once it's out, putting in a new one is a piece of cake.

Glad to hear that your problems were that easy to repair.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "van man" <vannman99@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: Clanging Reverse Solved, thanks archives!

> She'd been clanging bad in reverse, popping out of
> gear, barely able to even get her into reverse...
> Archives said possible motor mounts.  I slid
> underneath and found the lower two bolts holding the
> tranny to the motor to be loose...one is snapped and
> stripped, the other just missing the nut.  I replaced
> the one nut, so now I have 3 out of 4 cranked down
> tight - reverse problem solved.  Hoping to get a few
> thousand miles before dropping the tranny to replace
> the 4th bolt.
>
> Also replaced a leaky slave cyl - what a pain.  Much
> easier to take the mount off completely.  Smooth
> shifting now though...
>
> Thanks list,
>
> jeff
>
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