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Subject:Re: My van has about 220k miles, what are the chances that the manual tranny has never been rebuilt?
From:Jere Hawn
Date:Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:04:53 -0700

I waited until my 90 had 360,000 before the tranny became an issue.  During
its life nothing was ever done to it in term of repair, oil changes,
etc.....

Jere

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Kai Mei
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:41 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: My van has about 220k miles, what are the chances that the manual
tranny has never been rebuilt?

Do some of them last that long, w/o the dreaded 3/4 lider grenading?

Is that problem always fixed on rebuilt trannys?

Thanks.

1987.5 4 speed.