Having a 3/4 slider hub cracking problem would indicate a "weak"
transmission on a Japanese car or truck. On a German design it is
refered to as "German Engineering" 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Tim Demarest
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:10 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Vanagon Definition

So that's four out of what, 400? :-)

At 11:42 AM 9/27/2005 -0400, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 9/27/05 10:27:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>onanov@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
> > That the Vanagon has a weak manual transmission is news to me
>
>well apparently your the only one its news to..  LOL :<)   the 83-89
vanagon
>manual trannys are famous for failure.  ive owned 4 vans that had the 
>3/4 slider hub crack problem..