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Subject:Re: manual trans 3/4 slider hub crack problem...was:Re: Daryl the tranny man
From:gary hradek
Date:Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:48:54 -0800

Chris,
     Perhaps daryl will correct me but I was told that
the hub was improved in the later trannys.   I have
180k on my 1987 tranny and I expect to have to do some
work on it in the future.   So when do you think it
will fail?    gary
--- JordanVw@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/28/03 12:00:24 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> hradek@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
>
> > ,
> >     The gearhub problem is more common in the
> earlier
> > trannys and less common in the later ones.
>
> really?  why do you say that?  ive had more problems
> with the slider hub
> cracks in '86 up manual tranny vanagons than in the
> '83-85 manual tranny
> ones..
>
> chris
>

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