If your manual transmission begins to shift tight, resist going into gear
or is hard to get into gears when it is cold, try replacing your rear
engine mounts.
Although the mounts might appear good they get soft from exhaust heat and
wear out just like any mechanical part.
Some of the gear shifting resistance can be adjusted out in the linkage.
It is a two person job and although it takes only a few minutes its still
critical. I spray paint my coupler and scribe a line on the existing
position before I get into adjusting it. You know the old VW trick of
marking my spot.
In addition the selector rod and fingers / slots in the front of the case
begin to wear and the shifting gets sloppy. This repair can be done with
the transmission in the van ........... replace all the parts, they wear
together.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:33:51 -0500 Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
writes:
> I use this all the time.
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> Behalf
> Of Zoran Mladen
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 1:56 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Mobil 1 Gear Oil - Can I use this?
>
> So I picked up some Mobil 1 Gear Oil tonight with
> plans of putting it in an 87 Syncro.  The bottle
> simply says exceeds GL-5 standards.  Being that we
> need GL-4 in our trannies, can I use this?
>
> Z
>
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