For a manual transmission, put it n gear, push the van until the tires
make a revolution and count how many times the engine turns. This will
give the overall gearing.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Matthew
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:16 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: I gotta tranny... what is the gearing? no codes

I'm working on a person's bus and he wants to know the gearing.
Supposedly the tranny is a  TiICo rebuild (yes, tiico...). All codes on
the bottom side have been ground out.   There are zero marks otherwise.
None, zilch. yikes.

So how do I figure out the gearing? it is a 2wd vanagon tranny from a 86
bus.

I don't want to pull the bellhousing to count the final drive.

I could figure it out empricially with rpm and speed i guess. Anybody got
a solid answer otherwise?

thanks
matt

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