True.  Unfortunately, most customers are not comfortable with bolting the
final drive to the A/T.  Luckily, my A/T customers have been reasonably
close to Forward Air terminals.

Cheers,

Jeff
www.vanagonparts.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Marc Perdue
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:46 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Shipping a transmission

An auto tranny can be shipped by UPS in three different boxes.  That's the
way
mine was shipped from Long Enterprises.

Marc Perdue

Jeff at Vanagonparts wrote:

> No, UPS will not ship a pallet, that's why I stated palletize as
necessary.
> If you're shipping an automatic tranny, you're not using UPS due to the
> weight.  However, UPS will take a wooden crate.  A well made wooden crate
> will not end up looking like toothpicks.  I've shipped a lot of engines
and
> auto trannies in crates and have yet to have a problem.
>
> That being said, I ship all manual trannies in a double-walled cardboard
> box.  Haven't had a problem with that method either.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
> www.vanagonparts.com