On 9 Apr 2003 at 13:59, David Robertson wrote:

> 82 air cooled vanagon manual transmission.
>
> Is the front transmission mount rebuildable?  My bracket is rusted badly, but the rubber looks ok.  I can get another bracket, but the rubber is bad.  Can I remove the rubber from one bracket, and insert it into the other, without destroying it?
>
> Anyone have a spare mount in decent shape for sale?

A few years back, I replaced the front mount on my '88 Westy by having a local VW
shop press in a new mount (metal ring with rubber) inside the old Vanagon metal
housing, after removing the worn out rubber. Seemed like a good cheap fix at the
time (about 1/4 the cost of the new mount), but it has not lasted all that well, and will
need fixing again soon. I may try to find a stronger version of the rabbit mount, as I
have a hard time swallowing the price for the Vanagon mount...

Shawn Wright, I.T. Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
swright@SLS.bc.ca
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