Yep,
You got the right part. The metal ones should not wear out.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Edward Maglott
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: AT internals, plastic vs metal thrust washers?

I'm still working on putting my AT back together.  I ran into a couple
parts in the area of the planetary gear sets that are called thrust
washers.  There are 2 of these guys, that are a nylon or plastic looking
material with 3 lugs that engage into the planet gear holders.  The have
3
places on them that are sort of thinner, which looks like it is to
promote
oil flowing into the bearing surface.  So I was cleaning parts up to
reassemble, and broke one of these thrust washers.  I took apart my
known
bad spare tranny to see how they looked in there.  One looked OK, and
the
other was about 80% gone!  What was left looked somewhat melted.  Yikes,
I
thought, I better just get 2 new ones for my tranny.  I then went to
order
a replacement for the part # on the part (010 323 291 B) and they say
they
only have it without the "B."  That the "B" is a revision, usually
applied
when the part manufacturer changes.  I got the parts today from the
dealer,
and they are metal instead of plastic.  I have measured them all over
and
they seem to have the same dimensions.  So I wonder if I have the right
part here?  Maybe the newest version is metal?  Anybody replaced these
thrust washers lately?

Thanks,
Edward