In a message dated 3/30/2003 2:16:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pdx_vanagon@ATTBI.COM writes:

> does
> anyone else have issues shifting into second on manual trannys when their
> vanagon is cold? Mine kind of grinds a bit sometimes if I hit it wrong.
>

I was having this problem in my "new to me" '89 Westy so, just to humor some
people on the list, I switched my tranny fluid over to Redline MT-90.  After
a couple of weeks, I noticed that I no longer had that problem....

Roger