If you have a place to work, and a standard toolbox, you might consider
overhauling the auto tranny yourself. There is sufficient history in the
archives to support  the "iminent do-ability" of auto-tranny overhaul as
a home shop project. Not so with the manual tranny, which requires
special jigs to get reassembled and adjusted just right.

I think history is proving out that the Vanagon auto tranny is a
stronger, more trouble free transmission than the manual tranny. The
reverse is true of the '72 and earlier buses, in which the auto trannies
were problematical.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

LOREN BUSCH wrote:

> I'm looking for local referals (Seattle area) on automatic
> transmissions.  The auto tranny in my '90 is giving some signs that it
> is going to need work soon.  Does anyone have experience with any local
> shops when it comes to the automatics?  Thanks....
>