I would hope there would be no difference in replacing the clutch and replacing the tranny. in terms of what major component you remvoe from teh Vanagon.  If you are removing the engine to replace the clutch, you are performing a significant amount of extra work.  The tranny comes out easily with the engine (and all wiring and coolant lines) left in.

Z

"Carrington, Tom" <TCarrington@RELITECH.COM> wrote:
Hi Eric,

If you have the skills to do a clutch, you can do the tranny. The difference
this time is that you leave the engine in and just yank the tranny. I have a
partial writeup of this method at: http://volksweb.relitech.com/clutch.htm

Seems to me that you could buy really good rebuilt tranny from a list vendor
and put it in yourself for not much more than the quoted used price.

TomC

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Spletzer
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: 2/11/04 3:17 AM
Subject: Transmission advice

Hi All -

I think I have the infamous 3-4 Gear Slider issue and would love some
advice on how to proceed.

What happens is that in 3rd gear, I will get stuck unless I shift once
to neutral, and then once again to the other gear I'm looking for.
It's not completely stuck, but it's sticking more and more and I'm
afraid of having it stick for good eventually.

So it sounds to me like I need a new tranny. After shopping around, I
see
that I have a couple options - a
used tranny for about 700, installed, a rebuilt for about 1200. Does
anybody know if it's worth getting a used, or am I just delaying the
headaches?

Also - how hard is it to install a new transmission. I've done the
clutch before, but never the whole tranny?

Any bits of info would be a great help here. Also - anyone have a good
used tranny they know has been rebuilt for sale?

-eric
-----
Eric Spletzer
'85 Vanagon GL Westfalia

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