Hi Ted, (Do you mind if I call you Ted?)

My parents toasted a transmission in their 82 westy on their way back
from FL this spring. Mark Dearing at Salem Import in VA helped them
locate a replacement.

Any aircooled vanagon tranny will fit, from 1980-83.5.  The 79
transmission will not fit. A waterboxer transmission will not fit.

BTW, it would help others to lend a hand if they knew where you are
located.

Happy trails,

Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1973/74/79 Westfakia Conversion **Bob the Tomato**  LY3H
1977 Sunroof Automatic L63H/L90D
http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
http://www.busesofthecorn.com

On 2-Aug-05, at 12:27 AM, Theodore Hunter wrote:

> On my first trip in my '81 air-cooled 4-speed manual Vanagon, the
> transmission transformed itself into shrapnel.  Does anyone know
> what years
> of transmission can be swapped into my rig with no overly wild
> engineering
> problems?  I know somebody that's got a burned-up '79 van that they
> think
> still has a good transmission.  Would it fit?